CASIS Welcomes New NASA ISS National Lab Program Executive
NASA announced that Dr. Alex MacDonald, the agency’s chief economist, will serve as the primary liaison to CASIS.
Returning Home for Earth Day: NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan Conclude Their Successful Mission on the ISS
After spending many months viewing our planet from space, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned home this weekend just in time to celebrate the…
#PhageEvolution: Studying Viruses That Hunt Bacteria in Microgravity
Bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that prey on bacteria and only bacteria—are the most abundant “organisms” on Earth. In a microscopic arms race, a phage seeks to…
International Space Station Research and Development Conference Postponed
After careful consideration and extensive discussions amongst key stakeholders within the space station community, the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, the American Astronautical…
Harnessing the Harshness of Space for Accelerated Materials and Component Testing
Space is harsh—it’s a place with continuous cycling of extreme high and low temperatures, ultrahigh vacuum, atomic oxygen (highly reactive single-oxygen atoms), unfiltered ultraviolet…
Made In Space Receives NASA Award to Advance Space-Based Manufacturing
Last week, Made In Space received an award from NASA supporting two new proposals focused on space-based manufacturing: one to develop a Glass Alloy…
NASA Award Supports Continued Brain Organoid Research on Upcoming ISS Stem Cell Lab
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), together with Space Tango, received an award of nearly $5 million from NASA to develop…
LambdaVision Receives $5 Million Award From NASA for Additional ISS Research
In December 2018, biotechnology startup LambdaVision launched an investigation to the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory to advance the development of the…
Our BFF Gets to Know the Knee
This week, Techshot Inc. announced the successful bioprinting of a meniscus onboard the ISS National Lab. Techshot’s BioFabrication Facility (lovingly termed the BFF) launched…
SpaceX Successfully Completes CRS-20, Returning ISS National Lab-sponsored Payloads to Earth
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), April 7, 2020 – SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully splashed down today off the coast of California, bringing back dozens of…
ISS National Lab Issues Request for Proposals to Leverage External Facility for Materials Science and Device Testing
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), April 7, 2020 – The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory has announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) in…
Space-Based Research to Advance Technologies for Reducing Harmful Emissions on Earth
Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from the fossil fuel combustion exhaust of industrial plants remains a key area of Earth-based sustainability research and development. Technology…
