Excerpt from Applications of Space Flight in Materials Science and Technology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, April 20-21, 1977 This conference is the outgrowth of a letter from Dr. James Fletcher, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), to Dr. Ernest Ambler, Acting Director of the National Bureau of Standards (nbs). The letter requested the assistance of the nbs in setting up a conference devoted to the subject of the Applications of Space Flight in Materials Science and Technology. It was felt that the nbs would provide a most suitable location for such a conference in view of its established commitment to measurement sciences and to the characterization, properties, and performance of materials. The Program Committee decided upon a program that would first review those experiments that had been done in the Skylab and apollo-soyuz flights and the spar rocket program, and then devote itself to an examination of future prospects and opportunities for research and materials processing when the Space Shuttle becomes operable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.