NASA Wants to Bring Welding Back to Space After 50 Years—This Time With Lasers

Posted on November 8, 2024

NASA Marshall engineers and scientists, along with their collaborators from Ohio State University, monitor laser beam welding in a vacuum chamber during a Boeing 727 parabolic flight

Instead of relying on fasteners to keep structures together in space, astronauts may need to use lasers to weld on the lunar surface.