CLEVELAND — NASA Glenn engineers Chirs Kantzos and Tim Smith can now call themselves inventors too. They are the minds behind NASA Glenn's breakthrough material. A superalloy developed for extreme conditions of air and spaceflight. It's called GRX-810. Which was selected as NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year for 2025. Picked for its ability to advance NASA’s mission as well as benefit the public through commercialization.

"In a rocket engine, you can go from 0 to 1,000 or 2,000 degrees within a couple of seconds,” said research engineer and co-inventor, Christ Kantzos. “So, we need a material that's robust and reusable. And that's one of the big selling points for GRX-810 is it can stand many reuses."

Parts begin as metal powder inside a 3D printer. A laser melts the extremely

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