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

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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.