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March 29, 2018

Upward Volume 3, Issue 1—the quarterly magazine of the ISS National Lab

Discover the latest activities taking place on the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory in the newest issue of...

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The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it prepares to dock with the International Space Station on February 23, 2017. The spacecraft was delivering 5500 pounds of supplies to the orbiting space laboratory.

March 29, 2018

Research Heading into Space Ranges From the Upper Atmosphere to Microbes

A Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch into orbit no earlier than April 2 will carry with it a number of the ISS National...

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Multi use Variable g Platform

March 28, 2018

Applying Gravity in Microgravity Through the Techshot MVP

Over the years, Techshot has been instrumental in helping to provide meaningful applications onboard the International Space...

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Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, a Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) on the exterior of the station is featured in this image photographed by a crewmember during the STS 118 missions second planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA). MISSE collects information on how different materials weather in the environment of space.

March 26, 2018

Science-Heavy SpaceX Dragon Headed to Space Station

A new batch of science is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon on Monday,  April...

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of southern Scandinavia just before midnight on April 3, 2015. Prominent features include a green aurora to the north, the blackness of the Baltic Sea (lower right), and clouds (top right) and snow (in Norway) illuminated by the full Moon. City lights clearly show the coastline of the Skagerrak and Kattegat seaway that separates Denmark from its neighbors to the north and leads into the Baltic Sea. The largest light clusters on the seaway are the capital cities of Oslo and Copenhagen. Cities facing the Baltic are the Polish port of Gdansk and the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Smaller cities in northern Germany also trace the Baltic coastline (lower right).

March 26, 2018

Space Station Science Highlights: Week of Mar 19, 2018

Last week, astronauts onboard the International Space Station welcomed three new crew members who are certain to increase the...

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A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the NanoRacks Launcher attached to the end of the Japanese robotic arm

March 26, 2018

Demand for Small Satellites Launches Commercial Innovation

CubeSats, small cube-shaped satellites composed of units that measure 10 cm on each side and weigh less than 1.4 kg, are a...

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March 26, 2018

CASIS in the Classroom

During ISS Expeditions 53–56, NASA is dedicating a higher-than-usual proportion of crew member time to educational activities....

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March 26, 2018

Capturing Imagination Through Design

Ever since NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper developed the first U.S. manned mission patch for the Gemini 5 flight in 1965, patches...

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The Soyuz MS 08 rocket is launched with Expedition 55 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and flight engineers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

March 23, 2018

Space to Ground: Night Launch: 03/23/2018

In this week’s video update, you can see exactly what it is like inside a Soyuz spacecraft as a new crew of astronauts...

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March 22, 2018

Rooting for Answers: Testing Gravity Perception in Mustard Seedlings

When plants on Earth search for nutrients and water, what drives their direction? Very simply, gravitational force helps them...

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Example of parts Made In Space has printed at its Additive Manufacturing Facility aboard the International Space Station.

March 21, 2018

NASA, ASME Announce Winners of 3-D Printing Challenge

NASA and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Foundation recently announced three winners of the Future Engineers...

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The Soyuz rocket is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad, Monday, March 19, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station.

March 20, 2018

NASA TV to Broadcast Wednesday’s Space Station Crew Launch

NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev are ready for their journey to...

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