This Space Experiment Will Underpin Off-World Ambition, Commerce, and Colonization

12/08/2023 33 min
This Space Experiment Will Underpin Off-World Ambition, Commerce, and Colonization

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This Space Experiment Will Underpin Off-World Ambition, Commerce, and Colonization

This week’s episode examines an experiment that will underpin the development of a crucial environmental technology that almost every spacecraft - crewed or not - and every off-world human habitat will employ. Laura Winter speaks with Purdue University’s Issam Mudawar, who is the Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Flow Boiling & Two-Phase Condensation Experiment (FBCE) for the International Space Station (ISS). The FBCE’s second module just arrived at the ISS.

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