Mission: Northrop Grumman CRS-13
Launch date: No earlier than Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:39 p.m. EDT
Location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia
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A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is rolled out to Pad-0A, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Media Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Mission: Northrop Grumman CRS-13
Launch date: No earlier than Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 5:39 p.m. EDT
Location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia
The National Lab is sponsoring multiple investigations on the Northrop Grumman Cygnus capsule that are aimed at improving life on Earth through space-based research.
The launch—which is slated for no earlier than Sunday, February 9— will carry a diverse set of research and technology development projects sponsored by the National Lab.
Among the ISS National Lab-sponsored payloads are two investigations from leading academic institutions. Although both fall within the area of life sciences, they are studying very different things.
HNu Photonics Mobile SpaceLab facility offers investigators a quick-turnaround automated platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology experiments.
A student-designed experiment currently on station seeks to explore how humans can sustainably grow food crops in space habitats.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific are using the spaceflight environment to understand how microorganisms evolve in the absence of gravity.
Northrop Grumman CRS-15 successfully launched from Wallops Island, VA, on Feb. 21, 2021, loaded with approximately 8,000 pounds of research and supplies that included multiple investigations from the ISS National Lab.
We know many students are learning at home right now, and hands-on activities are especially important to keep students engaged and learning. Our network of ISS partners has pulled together dozens of no-cost activities for the whole family. After all, we are all in this together.
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