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    Highly sophisticated materials properties and engineering efforts are crucial for the success of missions for space exploration and settlement.

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    Space missions require materials that can preserve functional integrity under extreme conditions of heat, impact and radiation. This Comment outlines the materials properties needed for some of the most ambitious space missions and presents the design and testing principles before their incorporation.

    • Tommaso Ghidini

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