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- By ssbn727 (*****) Date 03-27-2014 04:45
Electromagnetic Levitator headed to ISS for future materials research

Astronauts, get your welding goggles on – the space station is going into the foundry business. The International Space Station (ISS) is set to do a spot of industrial research this June, when ESA’s Materials Science Laboratory-Electromagnetic Levitator (MSL-EML) heads for the station aboard Europe's’ Automated Transfer Vehicle 5 (ATV-5) Georges Lemaître unmanned space freighter as part of a program to study the casting of alloys in a weightless environment... I'm always fascinated with this sort of "stuff!"

http://www.gizmag.com/msl-eml-iss/31042/

Respectfully,
Henry
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