Rachel Hobson

NASA, Johnson Space Center

This gripping device is a material with synthetic hairs much like setae that are much thinner than a human hair. When a force is applied to make the tiny hairs bend, the positively charged part of a molecule within a slight electrical field attracts the negatively charged part of its neighbor resulting in 'stickiness.'

Fire & 3D printing in Microgravity

These sticky, stony, and sizzling investigations are just a sampling of the wide range of science conducted on the orbiting laboratory.