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October 23, 2017

View From the Cupola: Julie Robinson

Julie A. Robinson is the Chief Scientist for the International Space Station The maturation of the International Space Station...

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October 20, 2017

Constellations, Clouds, and the Conundrum of Big Data Processing

For millennia, humans have looked up to the sky to find constellations of stars, wondering what mysteries they hold. Today, we...

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet with 1.2 million Tomatosphere seeds that launched to the ISS on February 19, 2017.

October 13, 2017

The Tomatosphere™ Education Program: Entering a Fruitful New Phase

Right now, space tomatoes are growing in thousands of classrooms across North America. Through the award-winning Tomatosphere...

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August 24, 2017

View From the Cupola: Michael Roberts

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Upward, the quarterly magazine of the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National...

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August 23, 2017

The View From the Cupola: Randy Giles

Gravity is fascinating. So too is its absence. The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory is the world’s...

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June 27, 2017

The New Gold Rush: 3D Printing in Micro-G

Until a year ago, commercially printing objects in space was the stuff of science fiction. Not anymore. At any given time...

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Lenore Rasmussen, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Synthetic Muscle investigation, checks the pressure during the oxygen plasma treatment of titanium metal support mounts at the U.S. Department of Energys Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The mounts are supporting the samples during flight on the International Space Station

June 16, 2016

Bringing Motion to Life: Materials Science Research in Space

Our hands perform dozens, if not hundreds, of tasks for us every day. They wave hello and goodbye. They open jars, doors, and...

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