Launched on a Falcon 9 rocket, a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) after launching at 8:44 p.m. EDT (5:44 p.m. PDT) Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
are small devices that contain human cells in a 3D structure, allowing scientists to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs, and genetic changes.Complex communities of microorganisms on Earth carry out key functions in soil, including cycling of carbon and other nutrients and supporting plant growth.
sponsored by NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences, examines how microgravity affects metabolic interactions in communities of soil microbes. This research focuses on microbe communities that decompose chitin, a natural carbon polymer on Earth.is an educational mission that will teach high school students aerospace science by having them design a CubeSat.
These are just a few of the hundreds of investigations currently being conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology and biotechnology, physical sciences, and Earth and space science. Advances in these areas will help keep astronauts healthy during long-duration space travel and demonstrate technologies for future human and robotic exploration beyond low-Earth orbit to the
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