Completed Opportunities

Open Period: 4/20/2021 – 7/19/2021

NLRA 2021-8: Leveraging the ISS National Lab to Enable Digital Engagement and Higher...

The purpose of this NLRA) is to solicit applications for programs, products, and public-private partnerships focused on educational objectives related to the ISS National Lab.

Open Period: 4/7/2021-7/26-2021

NLRA 2021-7: Technology Advancement and Applied Research on the ISS National Lab

The purpose of this NLRA is to solicit proposals focused on flight investigations within applied R&D, translational medicine, technology readiness level maturation, and technology demonstrations.

Montage of flame images for a burning 1 cm wide cotton blend fabric. Images are taken 1.125 seconds apart starting at the top and moving from left to right. Air flow speed is constant at 10 cm s, and flow direction is from bottom to top. The flame reaches steady state after about 10 seconds.

Open Period: 3/21/2021 – 7/12/2021

NLRA 2021-5: In-Space Production Applications: Advanced Manufacturing and Materials

The purpose of this ISS National Lab Research Announcement is to solicit proposals for applied R&D to demonstrate space-based manufacturing and production activities in microgravity.

Students from Valley Christian High School presented details on their investigation that launced onboard SpaceX CRS-14.

Open Period: 2/23/2021 – 5/24/2021

NLRA 2021-4: Leveraging the ISS National Lab to Enable Digital Engagement and Higher...

The purpose of this NLRA is to solicit applications for programs, products, and public-private partnerships focused on educational objectives related to the ISS National Lab.

Open Period: 1/21/2021-4/26-2021

NLRA 2021-3: Technology Advancement and Applied Research on the ISS National Lab

The purpose of this NLRA is to solicit proposals focused on flight investigations within applied R&D, translational medicine, technology readiness level maturation, and technology demonstrations.

2019 University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s lung-bone marrow chip.

Open Period: 12/7/2020-3/1/2021

NSF/CASIS 2021 Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the ISS to Benefit...

The purpose of this solicitation is to attract proposals that make use of the ISS National Lab for flight research projects in the field of biomedical engineering.

Close-up image photographed during a run of the Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS) experiment onboard the International Space Station

Open Period: 12/7/2020-3/2/2021

NSF/CASIS 2021 Collaboration on Transport Phenomena Research on the ISS to Benefit Life on...

The purpose of this solicitation is to attract proposals that make use of the ISS National Lab for research related to the NSF Transport Phenomena Cluster and Nanoscale Interaction programs.

View of the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility taken by the External High Definition Camera

Open Period: 4/7/2020 – 5/22/2020

RFP 2020-3: Utilizing MISSE for Materials Science Research and Technology Demonstrations in...

This Request for Proposals seeks concepts for investigations in the field of materials science, device testing, or other research and development (R&D) areas that require external space exposure.

A close-up view of the Capillary Flow Experiments-2 Vane Gap-1 vessel.

Open Period: 12/9/2019-3/2/2020

NSF/CASIS 2020 Collaboration on Transport Phenomena Research on the ISS to Benefit Life on...

The purpose of this solicitation is to attract proposals that make use of the ISS National Laboratory for research related to the NSF Transport Phenomena Cluster and Nanoscale Interaction programs.

This lung-on-a-chip serves as an accurate model of human lungs to test for drug safety and efficacy.

Open Period: 12/7/2019-3/2/2020

NSF/CASIS 2020 Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the ISS to Benefit...

The NSF and CASIS are soliciting research in the general fields of tissue engineering and modeling of physiological systems that leverage the ISS National Lab to benefit life on Earth.

Open Period: 8/1/2019 – 8/3/2020

RFP 2019-2: Advanced Materials Research and Development Onboard the ISS National Laboratory

The purpose of this RFP is to solicit project concepts that propose use of the ISS National Lab for investigations in the field of advanced materials science and engineering.

Open Period: 8/1/2019 – 8/3/2020

RFP 2019-3: Industrial Biomedicine Research and Development Onboard the ISS National...

The purpose of this RFP is to solicit project concepts that propose use of the ISS National Laboratory for investigations in the field of industrial biomedicine.