A Researcher’s Guide to: Microgravity Materials Research

Flying 250 miles above the Earth, the ISS provides a platform for research to improve life on Earth, enable space exploration, and understand the universe. This researcher’s guide is intended to help potential ISS materials science researchers plan experiments utilizing the microgravity environment in order to understand how heat and mass transfer affects materials processing. It covers the nature of the acceleration environment on ISS, available facilities for conducting materials research, examples of previous microgravity materials research, and current materials science projects being developed for execution on the ISS.