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November 14, 2013
Spacelab modules, built by ESA and carried by NASA's space shuttle, were predecessors to research on the International Space Station.
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November 13, 2013
Student studies returned aboard Soyuz as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program's third mission, which launched to the space station on Sept.18 aboard Orbital Science's Cygnus.
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November 7, 2013
A study new to NASA, which will take place throughout NASA's one-year mission beginning in March 2015, should help scientists better understand the impacts of spaceflight on the human body through the study of a pair of identical twins.
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November 7, 2013
International Space Station-derived robotic capabilities, such as the Image-Guided Autonomous Robot (IGAR) are giving us a fast pass to life-saving surgical techniques with cancer-fighting finesse.
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November 7, 2013
The Space Test Program-Houston 4-FireStation investigation will collect data as it flies over thunderstorms, taking aim at the energy exhibit to help scientists study the relationship between lightning and gamma rays.
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October 30, 2013
The International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat isn't your average NASA Earth science mission
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October 25, 2013
Student winners of the YouTube Space Lab competition were surprised by their space station research results.
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October 1, 2013
In the new Warner Bros. movie "Gravity," two astronauts find themselves adrift in space and struggling for survival. NASA actively works to protect its astronauts and vehicles from the dangers portrayed in the movie.
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October 1, 2013
Spaceflight causes changes in physiological systems that can affect things like balance, strength, vision and endurance. A new test promises to provide scientists with data about these changes just moments after crew members exit the spacecraft.
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October 1, 2013
The goal of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft flight may be to show the vehicle's capabilities to send research and supplies to an orbiting laboratory, but when the flight docked on Sunday, Sept. 29, many young scientists had research on their minds.
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September 18, 2013
Techniques developed for use aboard the International Space Station to provide remote imaging for health diagnostics are being adapted and used for people living in isolated, underdeveloped areas far from hospitals.
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August 29, 2013
NASA is expanding life science research on the space station with a new collection of investigations called geneLAB, NASA's leading effort to develop next-generation life science research capabilities.
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August 22, 2013
The mWater app is a tool based in part on International Space Station technology, providing a global water testing resource available for free download as an app or usable via the Web browser version of the app on most smartphones.
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August 16, 2013
In two NASA-funded studies biofilms grown aboard the International Space Station bound space shuttle were compared with ground biofilms. The study results show for the first time that spaceflight changes the behavior of bacterial communities.
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August 15, 2013
NASA has selected 31 investigations proposed in response to the most recent NASA Research Announcement titled "Research Opportunities in Space Biology."
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August 10, 2013
Twin NASA astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly initiated an unprecedented research request to study the human effects of spaceflight using their identical twin genetic makeup.
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August 7, 2013
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Skylab, the nation's original space station. Skylab hosted experiments with results that proved humans could adapt to microgravity and function effectively in that environment for months at a time.
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August 2, 2013
The newly upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages all the science aboard the space station. On June 19, NASA unveiled upgrades to the payload operations control room.
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August 1, 2013
The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) will test the use of laser optics to transfer information to the ground. The switch from radio frequency to a laser beam could improve communication data rates by a factor of 10 to 100.
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July 31, 2013
NASA recently tested the Surface Telerobotics exploration concept, in which an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft remotely operates a robot on a planetary surface.
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