This collection documents Saville's career from his early days as a graduate student at the University of Michigan through some of his more recent work on guided self assembly. In between, scholars will be delighted to find a rich trove of material dealing with Saville's work on NASA's Life and Microgravity Spacelab Mission, which sought to advance key areas in biotechnology and materials processing by providing scientists with a research environment unrestrained by the effects of gravity. Specifically, Saville's research focused on electrohydrodynamics, fluid dynamics and the electrokinetic properties of suspension, but as a NASA consultant Saville was involved with much more, specifically the future of space science. The Saville collection documents not only his own experiments with NASA but also those of many others as Saville served on various NASA committees including the University Space Research Association, the NASA Science Review Committee and the Microgravity Science and Applications Program Committee. The collection also documents Saville's expert testimony on materials processing in space before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology in 1983.