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It's very interesting that NASA and The Marshall Space Flight Center (in conjunction with the U.S. Space Shuttle Program) are participating heavily in hydrogen powered cars and other hydrogen vehicles. Perhaps one day hydrogen power may even fuel rocket motors and space-craft, though for now their research seems to be concentrated on hydrogen cars!

Hydrogen-powered cars, other futuristic products all in a day’s work for NASA Space Product Manager!

Working with firms conducting research and experiments on the International Space Station or tutoring math and science students, NASA Market Segment Manager Jeneene Sams brings the benefits of space back to people on Earth. Her work involves the NASA's Space Product Development Program at the Marshall Center.

Ms. Sams is hard at work on International Space Station experiments.

"I make it easier for businesses to perform experiments in space, said Sams, a 16-year veteran of the space program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama. "

Corporations are willing to pay to do experiments carried out in space because the results can improve their products and ultimately peoples’ lives on Earth, she said.

Ms. Sams works with two of NASA’s 15 Commercial Space Centers — centers across the nation helping firms do space research. 

One of the firms doing such research — the Center for Advanced Micro gravity Materials Processing at Northeastern University in Boston -- has cranked up its furnace on the Space Station 3-times this year and grown 3 batches of "Zeolite Crystals" - these amazing crystals have potential to reduce the cost of petroleum and store new types of fuels like hydrogen, which is naturally abundant and pollution free. 

Space Station astronauts inserted the zeolite samples into the furnace, and then scientists on the ground started the furnace. The Space Shuttle brought back to Earth the first batch of crystals in 2002. Scientists at the Boston center are analyzing the crystals to see if they are bigger and of higher quality, which will make it easier for scientists to learn more about zeolite structures and then tailor them for specific uses.

The third batch of crystals has finished "cooking" inside the Space Station furnace and was recently returned to Earth by Space Shuttle Endeavor. That Space Shuttle mission delivered a new batch of samples to the station for processing.