Mission: Northrop Grumman CRS-16
Launch date: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 6:01 p.m. EDT
Location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia
Northrop Grumman CRS-16
Launch Resources
- Mission Overview
Northrop Grumman CRS-16 Mission Overview
Learn highlights of ISS National Lab-sponsored investigations that are part of the Northrop Grumman CRS-16 mission to the space station.
- Press Release
ISS National Lab-Sponsored Investigations Ready for Flight on Northrop Grumman CRS-16
Research launching on this mission includes life sciences studies, technology development projects, and student experiments.
- Press Release
Tissue Engineering in Space Could Treat Age-Related Muscle Loss on Earth
Research funded by NSF is using the unique environment of the ISS to help those suffering from age-related muscle loss here on Earth.
- Press Release
High School Grad's Spacebound Study Began With Astronaut Medical Mystery
An 18-year-old high school graduate developed a way to gauge the liver health of astronauts—and it could solve a medical mystery in space.
- Video
Northrop Grumman CRS-16: National Science Foundation Tissue Engineering
NSF has collaborated with the ISS National Lab on numerous investigations, and this marks the first NSF-funded tissue engineering payload to launch to station as part of this collaboration.
