The objective of this project is to explore the potential for microgravity manufacturing by understanding the advantages of reduced sedimentation, reduced natural convection, and containerless fluids. Students will start by exploring the work that has already been done in these areas from both an application and fundamental perspective to select the manufacturing process(es) they would like to explore which may include (protein crystals, fiber optics, metal alloys, composites, and additive manufacturing). Students will first build simple gravity tunable models to understand the fundamental physics of gravity. On the ISS these studies have been conducted in a variety of manners so obtaining data to compare to student models for both earth based and ISS based experiments will be a valuable first step. Then students will down select 1 or 2 manufacturing processes they see having a potential to take advantage of microgravity environments. The simple gravity tunable models will then be expanded to these applications to observe what performance improvements may be obtained through manufacturing on the ISS. Students will then design analog test rigs to simulate microgravity experiments for the purpose of validating these models. And a stretch goal will be to design a test rig and plan to conduct experiments on the vomit comet or ISS. For this stretch goal students should refer to https://issnationallab.org/ to understand the requirements for these experiments.