Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room B
Start Date
29-4-1997 2:00 PM
Description
The substantial US investment at stake in critical space station era technologies includes six broad categories: aerospace, transportation, health care, information, energy and the environment. The breadth of microgravity research addresses each area with current and future experimental programs extending into the space station era. As an example, the 1995 United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) crystallized proteins and infrared imaging components for health care screening and the design of therapeutic treatments, formed chemical catalysts (zeolites) for the energy industry including petroleum refining, and conducted research into semiconductor substrates.
Among the top 10 technologies over the next 10 years—those with the greatest potential for business profits—the field of super materials is second only to genetic mapping in its US and worldwide potential. (Olesen, The Futurist, Sept/Oct 1995, p. 9). The space station, through its novel uses of reduced gravity, improves our understanding of processing for advanced materials and therefore enhances the quality of life here on earth.
Paper Session I-B - Novel Microgravity Materials Processing: Case Study Approach
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room B
The substantial US investment at stake in critical space station era technologies includes six broad categories: aerospace, transportation, health care, information, energy and the environment. The breadth of microgravity research addresses each area with current and future experimental programs extending into the space station era. As an example, the 1995 United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) crystallized proteins and infrared imaging components for health care screening and the design of therapeutic treatments, formed chemical catalysts (zeolites) for the energy industry including petroleum refining, and conducted research into semiconductor substrates.
Among the top 10 technologies over the next 10 years—those with the greatest potential for business profits—the field of super materials is second only to genetic mapping in its US and worldwide potential. (Olesen, The Futurist, Sept/Oct 1995, p. 9). The space station, through its novel uses of reduced gravity, improves our understanding of processing for advanced materials and therefore enhances the quality of life here on earth.
