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ISS Microgravity Research

Posted by michael on from the use-a-knife-in-the-bottle dept.

Grey-Ghost writes "A while back NASA contracted the Microgravity Research Development and Operations Center (MRDOC) Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF). This facility is designed to perform about five micro-gravity combustion and/or fluid experiments per year once it goes up (scheduled for sometime in 2004). The project is mostly being developed by the coordinated efforts of Northrop Grumman and Analex but the facility is scheduled to outlast the completion of the currently scheduled fluids and combustion experiments. As someone working on the project, I haven't seen much coverage, but the experiments and technology that could come out of these experiments include molecular biology and/or nanotech construction (LMM), better fuel economy both in space and on Earth (MDCA), and answers to why your Katsup suddenly comes out after copious shaking (fluid shearing)."

5 comments

  1. Re:1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WOW! you must've been refreshing the front page every tenth of second to get such an awesome first post!!

    of course by "tenth of a second" I mean forty minutes, and by awesome I mean not.

    you suck

  2. Re:1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yes I suck and you hurt my felling so bad I think I'm ganna cry.

  3. Ketchup flow studies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's well worth $100 billion, if you ask me. Thank God for NASA.