Northrop Grumman CRS-10

Launch Resources

• Mission Overview

  Northrop Grumman CRS-10 Mission Overview

  The ISS U.S. National Laboratory is enabling a new era of research in space aimed at improving life on Earth. The 10th Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services (NG CRS-10) mission is slated for launch no earlier than November 15, 2018, carrying multiple ISS National Lab payloads.

  
• Press Release

  Science Investigations Ready for Northrop Grumman’s Resupply Mission to International Space Station

  As part of this mission, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus vehicle will ferry more than 400 kilograms of research and hardware facilities to the orbiting laboratory under the ISS National Laboratory flight allocation.

  
• Article

  Modeling Muscle Atrophy in Microgravity: Testing Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

  Siobhan Malany, president of Micro-gRx, shares her thoughts on her team’s investigation to test their lab-on-a-chip system launching to the ISS onboard Northrop Grumman CRS-10.

  
• Article

  Going Beyond Earth’s Limitations to Understand Parkinson’s Disease

  According to more than a decade of research, a mutation in a gene known as LRRK2 appears to be linked to Parkinson’s disease in some patients. The Michael J. Fox Foundation has partnered with the ISS National Lab to investigate the structure of the LRRK2 protein by crystallizing it in microgravity.

  
• Article

  Looking at Muscle Loss With a Lab-on-a-Chip

  This past weekend, crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) worked on an investigation by Micro-gRx to validate the company’s “lab-on-a-chip” cell culturing system to study human primary skeletal muscle precursor cells and muscle wasting in microgravity.

  
• Article

  Space Station Crew Works on Parkinson’s Protein Crystallization Experiment

  International Space Station crew members have been working on an investigation from The Michael J. Fox Foundation that recently launched to the ISS National Lab on Northrop Grumman CRS-10.

  
• Article

  Student Experiments on Station

  European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst recently worked with a NanoRacks module containing a student project examining chrondrule formation onboard the International Space Station.

  
• Article

  Going to Space to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions On Earth

  An International Space Station (ISS) National Lab investigation that recently launched on Northrop Grumman CRS-10 could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Earth.

  
• Article

  Shedding Light on our Early Solar System

  An investigation that recently launched to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s 10^th commercial resupply mission could help provide a better understanding of how the planets formed in our early solar system.

  
• Article

  Advancing Parkinson’s Research in Space

  During her first interview from space, NASA astronaut Anne McClain spoke with students at Kranz Junior High School and described working on a protein crystal growth experiment focused on Parkinson’s disease while in space.

  
• Article

  Designing Better Drugs: Piecing Together Protein Function Through Structure

  Three ISS National Lab investigations that returned recently from space aimed to use microgravity to grow high-quality crystals of medically important proteins to help improve their structure determination.