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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space station over earth

March 14, 2014

Week in Review (3/2/14 – 3/8/14)

the ISS National Lab Issues Request for Information Pertaining to Materials Science Experimentation on ISS On the heels of...

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Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, The vast loneliness is awe inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.

March 7, 2014

Why ‘Gravity’ Was More Than Just a Movie

On Sunday evening, millions of television viewers from around the world descended upon the film mecca of Los Angeles, CA for the...

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Nine crew members gather for a group portrait in the International Space Stations Kibo laboratory following a joint crew news conference. Pictured clockwise (from bottom right) are European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, both Expedition 37 flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 37 commander; Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 38 commander; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, both Expedition 38 flight engineers.

February 25, 2014

A Prize for the Whole World

The International Space Station is truly a testament to the power of human endeavor, perseverance and global cooperation....

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5th grade teacher Jessika Smith Awty International School, Houston

February 19, 2014

Let’s Chat About STEM

The word is out: STEM is a big deal! Numerous organizations, governmental entities and academic institutions are ramping up...

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On Dec. 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two spacewalks, spread over a four day period, which were designed to allow the crew to change out a degraded pump module on the exterior of the Earth orbiting International Space Station. He was joined on both spacewalks by NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, whose image shows up in Hopkins helmet visor.

February 13, 2014

Back On Campus

In an effort to attract new and nontraditional users to the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, the ISS...

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the ISS National Lab ISS National Lab ARK1 Mission Site

December 11, 2013

ARK-1: Creating the New Paradigm

Advancing Research Knowledge 1 (ARK-1) marks the initial increments of the ISS National Lab-sponsored payloads being sent to the...

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