In early 2018, NASA will send its Cold Atom Laboratory, worth $70 million, to the International Space Station. The fully automated rig will create Bose-Einstein condensates and conduct other cold atom experiments in orbit, using the weightless conditions to achieve record-low temperatures and make new discoveries in quantum mechanics and gravity. Physicists will of course be trying to reach the lowest possible temperatures, which could produce new quantum effects. According to UVA physicist and Cold Atom Laboratory experimenter Charles Sackett, researchers are confident they can achieve temper...