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Standing outside looking upward, I gaze intently into the dark night until I finally see it. It looks like a small bright dot moving…

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Mighty Mice to the Rescue: How Mice in Microgravity Help Patients With Muscle and Bone Loss on Earth

People usually think of bone and muscle as very different things. Bones support the body and give it shape, while muscles provide the strength…

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Space Crystals and the Search for a Cancer Cure: Using Microgravity to Improve Protein Crystallization

To take a shot at a “holy grail” of cancer drug discovery, researchers from Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research set their sights on…

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Fueling the Low Earth Orbit Economy: Orbit Fab's Gas Stations in Space

A year before Orbit Fab completed tests on the International Space Station (ISS) for hardware designed to refuel spacecraft in orbit, Furphy—as the project…

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Crystal Clear: Super-Sized Protein Crystals From Space Could Help Treat Diseases on Earth

In Greek mythology, Pandora’s Box releases disease and other miseries into the world. But in real…

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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…

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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…

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