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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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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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November 26, 2013

The Olympic Torch on the ISS

Providing Physical Science Lessons in Space As you may have recently heard, the Olympic torch relay was successfully conducted...

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October 28, 2013

Why Crowdsourcing Works

One of the the ISS National Lab strategic goals is to establish a robust “innovation cycle” where sound scientific ideas...

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October 1, 2013

Supporting Entrepreneurs in Space

At the ISS National Lab, we have been chartered by Congress and NASA to facilitate access to the International Space Station...

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ISS036 E 006520 (5 June 2013) NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, conducts an ocular health exam on herself in the Destiny laboratory of the Earth orbiting International Space Station. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, flight engineer, nearby but out of frame, assisted in the testing, part of a suite of eye exams carried out over a two day period on various crew members to gather information on intraocular pressure and eye anatomy.

September 30, 2013

CASIS Organizes 1st Annual Omics in Space Conference – Enterprising the Final Frontier

The first annual Omics-based Research in Microgravity Workshop organized by the ISS National Lab saw commercial and industrial...

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35 36 backup crew member Michael Hopkins of NASA answers questions from the news media as he and his crewmates prepare for a series of qualification simulations in Soyuz and Russian segment trainers.

September 25, 2013

Soyuz to Send Part of Increment 37/38 Crew This Afternoon to the ISS

Today at 4:58 PM EDT, three new crewmembers will be launching to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz TMA...

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NASA Wallops Flight Facility Facility, VA.,on Sept. 13, 2013

September 13, 2013

With Orbital Sciences Set to Launch Research to the ISS Wednesday – Commercialization of...

On Wednesday, Orbital Sciences is scheduled to launch its first, and much anticipated, demonstration mission of its Cygnus...

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