From Root Cause to Remedy: Can Microgravity Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis?
Alan Grodzinsky sees things differently. When he uses fluorescent dyes to test cell viability in the cartilage tissue he studies, dead cells are supposed…
Cultivating the Cosmos: Decoding Crop Resilience Through Space-Grown Cotton
Plants don’t have bones or muscles or brains, but they’re always on the move. Driven by their genetics, some are hardwired to flower in…
Unlocking the Secrets of the Immune System: How Tissue Chips in Space Could Hold the Key
They say you’re only as old as you feel, but in reality, you’re only as old as your immune cells. Even though the calendar…
View From the Cupola: Susan Margulies
What can we discover about phenomena on Earth when soaring approximately 250 miles above our planet’s surface? As you will find in this issue…
A Small Drop With a Big Impact: Fundamental Science in Space to Improve Medicine on Earth
It’s 10 p.m., and researchers and students excitedly gather inside a lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York. All are focused on…
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…
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…
The View From the Cupola: Erik Svedberg
I am very excited to introduce this special issue of Upward to you, as its focus is on materials research in space. My work…
The View From the Cupola: Lucie Low
The opportunity to do biomedical research on the International Space Station (ISS) is so far outside the realm of possibility for most researchers in…
Spaceflight Studies for a Sustainable Future
Humankind has made incredible technological advancements over the past two centuries. However, many of these advancements have come at a significant cost to the…
Space Worms: Unexpected Pioneers of Discovery & Commercial Services
Three years ago, a two-headed worm returned from the International Space Station (ISS), and in the summer of 2017, the worm achieved internet and…
