Additive Manufactured Hardware Qualification and Certification at NASA

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is certainly changing the space industry and providing new opportunities to travel to low earth orbit and explore our universe

New design opportunities –not previously possible –for new high performance metal alloys, light-weighting, managing thermal, structural, and dynamic loads are being enabled by AM.

Additively manufactured parts are already being inserted for complext system for NASA programs in critical applications –“ready to fly”

Human exploration of space, especially deep space, requires extreme reliability

Qualification of AM design/parts/process and Flight Certification