Made In Space and the ISS National Lab: Launch world’s first 3D printer to space

June 25, 2015

Made In Space and the ISS National Lab: Launch world’s first 3D printer to space

Made in Space joins forces with CASIS and NASA to pave the way to 3D printing in space. Made in Space joins forces with the ISS...

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ISS044E011632 (07 12 2015) Expedition 44 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly seen inside the Cupola, a special module which provides a 360 degree viewing of the Earth and the International Space Station. Kelly is one of two crew members spending an entire year in space.

June 11, 2015

The International Space Station Brings Big Buzz and Big Science to BIO 2015

This year, the BIO International Convention will raise the bar, yet again, through a collaborative effort with the ISS National...

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NASA officials and U.S. commercial space partners ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, June 4, 2015. NASA is working with commercial industry to enable new research aboard the International Space Station that benefits humanity and stimulate other economic opportunities from spaceflight.

June 11, 2015

Bringing the Space Station to the Big Apple

They always say that New York is the city that never sleeps, and after last week, outreach teams from the ISS National Lab and...

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May 12, 2015

Bigger is Better: Protein Crystallization on the Space Station Yields Promising Results

Recently, Dr. Joseph Ng of iXpressGenes, Inc. published an exciting article in an online journal that features some images of...

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May 7, 2015

Commercialization of Space: How a NASA Initiative is Advancing the the ISS National Lab...

Last week, NASA released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking innovative suggestions from the private sector on how NASA can...

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Raising of the Antares rocket on Saturday, October 25, 2014

October 31, 2014

Statement from Greg Johnson, the ISS National Lab President and Executive Director

This week’s unfortunate events regarding Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket provide the world with a stark reminder that while...

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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, arrives at launch Pad 0A, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 5,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital 3 mission is Orbital Sciences third contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA.

October 24, 2014

Research Opportunities Abound in October

In the spirit of the Major League Baseball postseason, October is primetime. While the the ISS National Lab team isn’t in the...

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The CRS 4 mission began early in the morning on Sunday, September 21, when Dragon and the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SpaceXs Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. at 1:52am EDT.

September 17, 2014

Mice in Space

Guest Author: Catherine Hiller, Novartis The Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) will be sending a strain of mice...

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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite captured this natural color view of an algae bloom in the west end of Lake Erie. The image of the coastal waters off of Ohio, Michigan, and southwestern Ontario was acquired at 2:50 p.m. EST on August 3, 2014.

August 4, 2014

Better Understanding Algal Blooms From the International Space Station

Over the course of the weekend, algal blooms became the topic of many news stories. Algal blooms, while not atypical, normally...

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Linenger floats in Mirs Priroda module. He and his two cosmonaut crewmates mainly conducted remote sensing experiments in this module. In all, Mir spent 15 years in orbit (19862001) and served as the laboratory for some 23,000 scientific and medical experiments.

July 23, 2014

IEEE Magazine Spotlights ISS Research

The research being conducted on the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory has provided and continues to provide...

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A group shot in front of the Apollo Lunar Module the SSEP student researcher delegates that presented on the second day of the 2014 SSEP National Conference, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, July 3, 2014.

June 11, 2014

The Latest at the ISS National Lab

If April’s showers bring May flowers, June and July bring…events! The summer is always a very busy time for our...

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Peake (@astro timpeake) photographed the Alps from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 27, 2015 and later shared the image with his social media followers, writing, There may not be much snow in the Alps this winter but they still look stunning from here! #Principia

May 5, 2014

Commercialization of Space: How a NASA Initiative is Advancing the the ISS National Lab...

Gregory H. Johnson, the ISS National Lab President and Executive Director   Last week, NASA released a Request for...

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