Astronaut Mark Lee tests the new backpack called Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting an EVA. The Lidar In Space Technology Experiment (LITE) is shown in the foreground. The LITE payload employs lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, a type of optical radar using laser pulses instead of radio waves to study Earths atmosphere. Unprecedented views were obtained of cloud structures, storm systems, dust clouds, pollutants, forest burning, and surface reflectance. The STS 64 mission marked the first untethered U.S. EVA in 10 years, and was launched on September 9, 1994, aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery.

August 22, 2018

Report Discusses the State of STEM

A report from STEMconnector titled “State of STEM: Defining the Landscape to Determine High-Impact Pathways for the...

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August 21, 2018

Space Dreamers: Bringing Space Science to Students

This fall, Bryce Hilliard will start eighth grade at Farmwell Station Middle School in Ashburn, Virginia. Two years ago, after...

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STEMonstration: Nutrition

August 20, 2018

STEMonstration: Nutrition

In this NASA STEMonstration, crew member Scott Tingle discusses the importance of astronauts maintaining a nutritious diet while...

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STEMonstration on kinetic and potential energy by ISS crew member Joe Acaba

August 17, 2018

STEMonstration: Kinetic and Potential Energy

In this NASA STEMonstration, International Space Station (ISS) crew member Joe Acaba demonstrates kinetic energy (the energy an...

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Space Station Explorers visits Bancroft Elementary in Washington, D.C.

August 16, 2018

A Year of Inspiring the Next Generation of Space Explorers

the ISS National Lab and the Space Station Explorers (SSE) Consortium, a growing community of the ISS National Lab educational...

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At the 2018 ISS Research and Development Conference, high school junior Kritika Yerrapotu helped attendees choose locations to be photographed by the automated EarthKAM camera onboard the ISS.

August 15, 2018

Student Perspective: Big Dreams for a New Space Age

Kritika Yerrapotu is a junior at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California. In 2017, Yerrapotu wrote the speech below...

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STEMonstration of Newtons 3rd law of motion by ISS crew member Mark Vande Hei.

August 14, 2018

STEMonstration: Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

In this NASA STEMonstration, International Space Station (ISS) crew member Mark Vande Hei demonstrates Newton’s third law of...

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Students at the 2018 Zero Robotics Middle School Finals.

August 13, 2018

Students Program Space Robots

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS) last Friday, student-programmed SPHERES (Synchronized Position Engage Reorient...

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August 10, 2018

Commercializing Low Earth Orbit: The Role of the ISS in the Emerging Space Economy

the ISS National Lab Director of Business Strategy and Portfolio Management Warren Bates recently spoke with Silicon Valley...

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Rossana Chiarella and students in Patapo School in Peru.

August 10, 2018

How a Space-traveling Squirrel Monkey Helps Kids Learn Science in Peru

Rossana Chiarella teaches pre-kindergarten and coaches the Space-STEM (S-STEM) Club at Palm Springs North Elementary in Hialeah,...

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STEMonstration of Newtons 2nd Law of Motion by ISS crew member Randy Bresnik

August 9, 2018

STEMonstration: Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion

In this NASA STEMonstration, International Space Station crew member Randy Bresnik demonstrates Newton’s second law of motion:...

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A space optimized wrench for ISS crew members 3D printed onboard the space station using the Additive Manufacturing Facility.

August 8, 2018

Removing Gravity From the Manufacturing Equation

What if you could design and manufacture objects intended for space actually in space, rather than designing them to withstand...

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