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NASA’s Plans for Development of a Standard for Additively Manufactured Components

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The current version of NASA standards for manned spaceflight hardware do not contain sufficient detail for the certification of additively manufactured components. The development of additively manufactured standards is currently in work by several standards organizations. However, NASA cannot wait on these organizations to develop such standards. NASA and its program partners in manned spaceflight (Commercial Crew, Space Launch System and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle) are actively developing additively manufactured components for flight as early as 2019.

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  1. Standard Materials and Processes Requirements for Spacecraft, NASA-STD-6016A, November 30, 2016.

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  1. NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL, USA

    Richard Russell

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Russell, R. NASA’s Plans for Development of a Standard for Additively Manufactured Components. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 28, 1924–1928 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-019-03939-x

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