The trials and tribulations of freeze-casting to manufacture materials in space
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Medill News Service journalist Lauren Robinson is embedding this spring with Northwestern University researchers studying freeze-casting for a planned space launch. Click the first photo in the gallery above for a photo essay showing how a freeze-casting suspension is created. Krysti Scotti’s enthusiasm for her pioneering freeze-casting work at Northwestern University is contagious enough to […]