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i'm here with john vickers and he is the

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manager of the new materials lab project

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on the space station john thanks for

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joining us today tell us what materials

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lab is i mean this is not your average

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database we're talking about now so

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we're really excited about materials lab

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materials lab is a new project it's a

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new approach actually to conducting

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materials microgravity science on the

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space station and this is really

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important work we're doing i mean we've

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got to learn how these materials behave

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in microgravity so that we can venture

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further and it helps us here on earth as

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well

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absolutely materials research is one of

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the fundamental building blocks of any

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technological

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innovation

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we're directing this materials lab

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research to be applicable to first our

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nasa needs but also to

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industrial needs that we might have here

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on earth so this is a novel way to share

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information really and tell us about the

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informatics part of that so one of one

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of the

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big ideas that we have around materials

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lab is to accelerate the information

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through our new marshall located

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physical science informatics

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system that allows the data to be more

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accessible

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to

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scientists

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internationally to

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many stakeholders

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around the nation around the world so

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it's not only industry i mean we're

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talking about future spacecraft

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developers too that can use this

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treasure trove of information

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absolutely we have real nasa needs for

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higher performing materials so

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understanding how we can make those

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materials uh more capable

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or louder for example is very important

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to us at nasa and anything we learn in

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space

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pretty much can be converted to use

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absolutely we do need to know how these

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materials perform in space and there's

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only one way to find that out to

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investigate them in space many many

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times we can apply that back on earth

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so for folks who need this information

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how do they get it

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so it's really easy to get to our

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physical science informatics system you

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can go to our nasa marshall webpage and

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locate it

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rather easily there you can also google

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nasa physical science informatics go and

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register log in your own

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have we had any results so far i mean

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are you hearing any feedback about how

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this is really working so our physical

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science informatics system has just been

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online for

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probably six months now what we're doing

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presently is loading old science data

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that we've had from past experiments

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that we've conducted in space we're here

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really hearing good results back from

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that already

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good can't wait to go and see if i can

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figure some of this materials research