Abstract
Skylab is America's first manned space station. It offers a unique opportunity to conduct experiments in astronomy, geoscience, the life sciences and engineering. Included in the latter category is the M512 facility for materials processing in space. In addition to other experiments this unit is equipped with a chamber which can be vented to space vacuum and an electron beam heating source capable of melting small metal pendants attached to a rotating pin wheel which may be successively placed at the electron gun focal point. Mechanical fixtures are provided to release the molten body from its support post, if desired, allowing it to solidify under high-vacuum zerogravity conditions.
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