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the ISS National Lab Names Bobby Block Director of Communications
…vice president of corporate communications for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a commercial spaceflight company based in Hawthorne, CA. While at SpaceX, Block was credited by space industry media with making…
Read MoreU.S. National Laboratory Research Geared for SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services Mission to the Space Station
…spaceflight. Hardware Partner: Space Tango Comparative Real-time Metabolic Activity Tracking 490 BioTech (Knoxville, TN) Dan Close The failure rate of new drug candidates upon reaching the preclinical or clinical trial…
Read MoreTarget ISS Cotton Sustainability Challenge Receives Honorable Mention in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas
Target Corporation received an honorable mention in business magazine Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards for the International Space Station (ISS) Cotton Sustainability Challenge. Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas…
Read MoreCompanies to Discuss Next-Generation Space Stations at ISSRDC
…competitively awarded Axiom Space the opportunity to connect the first habitable modules of their Axiom Station to the International Space Station (ISS). In late 2021, NASA followed with competitive awards…
Read MoreMore than 20 Payloads Sponsored by the U.S. National Laboratory Slated to Launch on SpaceX CRS-12 to the International Space Station
…year-long experiment of a high-performance commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system on the ISS. COTS computer systems can be programmed to detect and respond to radiation events by lowering operating speeds…
Read MoreSparking Student Interest in Space Science in Brazil
…the community. As a result, the student received a grant to transfer to private school for his remaining three years of high school, and the community paid for him to…
Read MoreInternational Space Station U.S. National Lab and National Science Foundation Announce Transport Phenomena in Space Funding Opportunity
…announced a “Transport Phenomena” joint solicitation wherein researchers from the fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, thermal transport, and combustion and fire system communities will have the ability to leverage…
Read MoreNew Student Payloads Headed to the ISS on SpaceX’s 17th Commercial Resupply Services Mission
…authentic research onboard the ISS National Lab. Space Station Explorers Visit www.spacestationexplorers.org to learn more about the Space Station Explorers Consortium, a growing community of ISS National Lab partner organizations…
Read MoreCombustion Integrated Rack
The Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR), located in the U.S. Laboratory Module (Destiny), allows investigators to perform combustion research to understand the fundamentals of the combustion process, fire safety, and methods…
Read MoreAdvanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments
The Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) project is a set of six independent studies of gaseous flames to be conducted in the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR). ACME investigates laminar…
Read MoreU.S. National Laboratory Research Payloads From SpaceX CRS-9 Arrive at the International Space Station
…often means that space-based computers are two or three generations behind state-of-the-art computers on Earth. This investigation tests small computers called Gumstix modules, which are based on open-source software, as…
Read MoreTaking Chemistry Out of This World
Chemistry is the study of the structure, composition, and properties of elements and compounds and the transformation these substances undergo. But chemistry is not just for scientists in the lab,…
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