Space Station Research Highlights From 2017
Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei swaps out a payload card from the TangoLab-1 facility and places into the TangoLab-2 facility. TangoLab provides a standardized platform and open architecture for experimental modules called CubeLabs. CubeLab modules may be developed for use in 3-dimensional tissue and cell cultures.
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2017 was a busy year of science onboard the International Space Station. Investigations ranged from growing leafy greens in microgravityThe condition of perceived weightlessness created when an object is in free fall, for example when an object is in orbital motion. Microgravity alters many observable phenomena within the physical and life sciences, allowing scientists to study things in ways not possible on Earth. The International Space Station provides access to a persistent microgravity environment. to expanding small satellite science capabilities, and even studying the behavior of new experimental fuels in space. 2017 was also a robust year of research on the U.S. National Lab, as more experiments than ever before have reached the orbiting laboratory.