View From the Cupola: Ray Lugo
In 1994, as a much younger self, I had the opportunity to work with a team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) on the…
Stem Cells and Space: What Microgravity Can Teach Us About the Human Heart
The musical “Rent” famously calculated 525,600 minutes in a year, but how do you measure a year in heartbeats? The human heart is a…
Heating Things Up in Microgravity: Experiments in Space Answer Burning Questions About Fire Behavior
Ya-Ting Liao has always been fascinated by fire. Even as a child growing up in Taiwan, she was interested in the science that makes…
Going Cool to Go Green: Studying Cool Flames in Space to Improve Engine Efficiency
Transportation is crucial to our society, yet it is something most of us take for granted. There are more than 1.4 billion cars worldwide…
View From The Cupola: Amelia Williamson Smith
Standing outside looking upward, I gaze intently into the dark night until I finally see it. It looks like a small bright dot moving…
Mighty Mice to the Rescue: How Mice in Microgravity Help Patients With Muscle and Bone Loss on Earth
People usually think of bone and muscle as very different things. Bones support the body and give it shape, while muscles provide the strength…
Space Crystals and the Search for a Cancer Cure: Using Microgravity to Improve Protein Crystallization
To take a shot at a “holy grail” of cancer drug discovery, researchers from Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research set their sights on…
Fueling the Low Earth Orbit Economy: Orbit Fab’s Gas Stations in Space
A year before Orbit Fab completed tests on the International Space Station (ISS) for hardware designed to refuel spacecraft in orbit, Furphy—as the project…
Crystal Clear: Super-Sized Protein Crystals From Space Could Help Treat Diseases on Earth
In Greek mythology, Pandora’s Box releases disease and other miseries into the world. But in real life, a very different type of box uses…
From Science Fairs to Space: Student Experiments Help Launch New Era of Space-Based Research
To advance scientific discovery in new ways, scientists are taking their experiments and labs to an environment unlike any other: the International Space Station…
Extreme Electronics: LEO as the Ultimate Technology Proving Ground
Computing advances continue to push the envelope for ever-smaller, ruggedized electronics that must thrive in extreme conditions, whether inside jet engines, nuclear reactors, geothermal…
On the Edge of the Edge: Taking Supercomputing to Space
On Earth, scientists are used to having high-performance computers at their fingertips. Such computing capabilities are critical to analyze the rich data from experiments…
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