October 26, 2017
On the Frontier of Space: Looking Outward to Better Understand the Universe Around Us
The ISS National Lab is an outpost on the frontier of space. It is a point from which we can peer out into the…
October 26, 2017
Pushing Research to New Heights: Innovative Research at the ISS R&D Conference
What do investigators studying ecosystem productivity, the growth of fungi from the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, the robustness of a new type of osteoporosis drug, and…
October 25, 2017
WetLab-2: Transforming the ISS into a Living Laboratory
To study gene expression in a ground-based molecular biology lab, researchers utilize a whole lab bench of tools and equipment. The process of conducting…
October 20, 2017
The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean Image Processing System
For millennia, humans have looked up to the sky to find constellations of stars, wondering what mysteries they hold. Today, we live in a…
June 26, 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 onboard the ISS…