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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim joined live via downlink from the International Space Station during the 2025 Meltwater Summit

May 15, 2025

Orbiting Back: A Full-Circle View of the Evolving Space Research Landscape

The face of space exploration is changing as opportunities extend beyond the traditional aerospace community.

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We made space cookies and milk for Santa this year. Happy holidays from the ISS! 12/26/2019

May 13, 2025

Innovation in Focus: Surprising Science

How can a soccer ball, cookies, and even beer contribute to our understanding of science?

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Redwire Space Chief Scientist Ken Savin

May 13, 2025

Redwire’s Kenneth Savin Named to TIME100 for Advancing Space-Based Health Innovation

Savin has been a champion for translating microgravity research into real-world breakthroughs.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch sets up Fiber Optic Production, an investigation to create optical fibers in microgravity that may exhibit superior quality to those produced on Earth.

May 8, 2025

The U.S. is Risking its Economic and Defense Leadership in Low Earth Orbit

Recent ISS decommissioning plans, reduced cargo missions, and lost facility access risk reversing progress to adversaries.

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(Left) Space Shuttle Atlantis, the STS-37 mission launched April 5, 1991 and (Right) NASA's SpaceX 32 on April 21, 2025

May 2, 2025

BioServe Launches 100th Mission

BioServe’s expertise has helped scientists around the world conduct research in microgravity.

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Early stage brain cells from NCSF study of primary progressive MS on SpaceX CRS-30 (March 21, 2024 - April 30, 2024).

April 28, 2025

Microgravity Could Be the Key to Developing New Therapies for Neurogenerative Diseases

Millions of Americans live with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s—neurodegenerative diseases with no cure.

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April 3, 2025

Registration Opens for 2025 International Space Station Research and Development Conference...

Join us at the only conference dedicated to highlighting the many advancements enabled by the orbiting laboratory.

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#DYK the ISS National Lab has a #magazine? Well, you do now! Upward, the official magazine of the ISS National Lab, focuses on the results coming from research onboard the International Space Station and how these results are addressing real-life issues and challenges we face here on Earth. The latest issue details science that could lead to groundbreaking new treatment for #maculardegeneration, a new way to treat #osteoporisos and #cancer and how a surprising observation in space could lead to life-saving treatment for heart failure. #lifesciences #Scienceinspace Read, download and subscribe here: https://issnationallab.org/upward/

#DYK the ISS National Lab has a #magazine? Well, you do now!

Upward, the official magazine of the ISS National Lab, focuses on the results coming from research onboard the International Space Station and how these results are addressing real-life issues and challenges we face here on Earth. The latest issue details science that could lead to groundbreaking new treatment for #MacularDegeneration, a new way to treat #osteoporisos and #Cancer and how a surprising observation in space could lead to life-saving treatment for heart failure. #lifesciences #ScienceInSpace

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EXPLORE RESULTS FROM RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN SPACE

Upward Volume 8, Issue 1 Available Now

In this issue’s cover story, learn how ISS research could lead to a groundbreaking new treatment for macular degeneration. Other features highlight how microgravity manufacturing can improve therapeutic nanomaterials to treat disease and how space-based studies are helping to advance regenerative therapies to reverse heart damage.

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