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iss036e019758 In the International Space Stations Destiny laboratory,NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg,Expedition 36 flight engineer,speaks into a microphone while conducting a session with the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE) 1 sample preparation at the Light Microscopy Module (LMM) in the Fluids Integrated Rack Fluids Combustion Facility (FIR FCF). ACE 1 is a series of microscopic imaging investigations that uses the microgravity environment to examine flow characteristics and the evolution and ordering effects within a group of colloidal materials.

March 27, 2013

The ISS National Lab and MassChallenge – Expanding Your Horizons

On March 17, I had the distinct opportunity to introduce a space panel outlining opportunities in microgravity post shuttle at...

NASA astronauts Kevin Ford (background) and Tom Marshburn, setting up two Spheres robots in the Kibo laboratory on the International Space Station. The volleyball sized satellites have their own power, propulsion and navigation systems and are used in an international competition for high school students.

January 16, 2013

High School Students Test Their Ideas on the ISS in the Zero Robotics Challenge

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently played host to a unique competition for high school students in the United...

A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 3:22 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico. The splashdown successfully ended the first contracted cargo delivery flight contracted by NASA to resupply the International Space Station.

October 29, 2012

The Dragon Returns to Earth

On Sunday afternoon, a SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down off the California coast with almost 2000 pounds of cargo—including...

ISS026 E 034307 (15 March 2011) Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, is pictured in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

October 17, 2012

Ramping up with Robots aboard the International Space Station

Robots in space got a lot of attention over the past few weeks—and for good reason. Aboard the International Space Station,...

October 3, 2012

National Lab Imaging System Used to Monitor Wildfires

This year, wildfires during the summer season were particularly brutal. The average fire size in August was higher than it has...

On the morning of July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong prepares to don his helmet in the suit up room of the crew quarters in the Kennedy Space Centers Manned Spacecraft Operations Building which will now bear his name.

August 27, 2012

Goodbye to a Space Pioneer

One Giant Leap… This last weekend the world saw the passing of a giant. Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on...

August 7, 2012

The New Generation of US Crew Vehicles

On Friday, August 3rd, NASA announced the selection of three competing proposals that will be funded to develop an initial...

Rocketing into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to fly in space is one of my favorite moments.

July 24, 2012

Farewell to Dr. Sally Ride

As the first American female astronaut, Dr. Sally Kristen Ride – a Stanford-educated physicist – has earned a special place...

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July 16, 2012

NASA’s Uhran Retiring, New Crew on the ISS

Best Wishes to Mark Uhran As Assistant Associate Administrator for the International Space Station Division, Mark Uhran oversaw...

June 21, 2012

The ISS National Lab-PGA STEM Summer Camp (June 18-22, 2012)

Our first the ISS National Lab/PGA STEM Summer Camp was a huge success! Middle-school students from five different schools in...

SS031 S 002 (14 July 2011) Expedition 31 crew members take a break from training at NASAs Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait. Pictured on the front row are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (right), commander; and Gennady Padalka, flight engineer. Pictured from the left (back row) are NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin, European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers and NASA astronaut Don Pettit, all flight engineers.

June 18, 2012

A Day Aboard the ISS

Right now, six people are living and working on-board the International Space Station (ISS) while it orbits approximately 200...

ISS030 E 185321 (28 March 2012) Moscow, Russia appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles. A solar array panel for the space station is on the left side of the frame. The view is to the north northwest from a nadir of approximately 49.4 degrees north latitude and 42.1 degrees east longitude, about 100 miles west northwest of Volgograd. On the horizon in the background can be seen a small sample of Aurora Borealis, airglow and daybreak.

June 6, 2012

CASIS Must Succeed: And It Can if We Make it So

As I pointed out in the first part of this essay (which also appears on this web site) the International Space Station is an...

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