The ISS and Household Products: How P&G is Using Space to Improve Customer Experience
Procter & Gamble (P&G), a giant among household product providers, shares exciting progress from their ISS experiments.
Jumpstarting the CubeSat Revolution with Reliable Launch from the ISS
Does your small satellite need a ride to space? It is getting a lot easier thanks to NASA and commercial partners, who are establishing ...
Reshaping Drug Delivery Millions of Crystals at a Time
A team of Merck researchers is utilizing the unique microgravity environment of the ISS National Lab as a first step in discovering a way ...
Space Worms Have Scientists Seeing Double (Heads)
Planarian flatworms are known to regenerate all parts of their bodies after injury, but growing a new head is extremely rare under normal conditions. ...
Exotic Glass Fibers From Space: The Race to Manufacture ZBLAN
Optical fibers are the thread that connects our modern digital world. Smaller in diameter than a human hair, these fibers can transmit light pulses ...
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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…
Extreme Electronics: LEO as the Ultimate Technology Proving Ground
Computing advances continue to push the envelope for ever-smaller, ruggedized electronics that must thrive in extreme conditions, whether inside jet engines, nuclear reactors, geothermal…
On the Edge of the Edge: Taking Supercomputing to Space
On Earth, scientists are used to having high-performance computers at their fingertips. Such computing capabilities are critical to analyze the rich data from experiments…
It’s Getting Crowded Up There: Towing Away Trash in Space
No one likes trash—not in landfills and not in space. Yet the mounting problem of orbital…
The View From the Cupola: Erik Svedberg
I am very excited to introduce this special issue of Upward to you, as its focus…
The View From the Cupola: Lucie Low
The opportunity to do biomedical research on the International Space Station (ISS) is so far outside…
ISS National Lab Missions Flown
From the 1st launch back in 2013 to the most recent one, take a look back at all the science that launched to the ISS National Lab!

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