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Astronaut Chris Cassidy with Seedling Growth

Expedition 36 Update: May 17, 2013

The station's Expedition 36 crew wrapped up the week with combustion and biological research while awaiting launch of three new crewmates.

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NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn performs the second of a two-day session of taskboard and teleoperations with Robonaut. (NASA)

Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist

Expedition 35 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.

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Selected crew members for the one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, U.S. Astronaut Scott Kelly (pictured left) and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (pictured right). (NASA)

The Joint US–Russian One-Year Mission

An international collaboration evaluates research protocols for candidate investigations during the planned American/Russian one year increment.

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NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn uses a Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE)-2 vessel to perform several interior corner flow tests. CFE is a suite of fluid physics experiments that investigate capillary flows and flows of fluids in containers with complex geometries. (NASA)

New Capability Expands Communication

A new communications upgrade paves the way for the ability of the crew and scientists to perform more hours of research every day.

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Video Features: ISS Research Racks

Video Features: ISS Research Racks

This series of short video features focuses on the research racks that support the multitude of science experiments on the space station.

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Mission specialist Sandra Magnus works with a Group Activation Pack (GAP) for the Recombinant Attenuated Salmonella Vaccine (RASV) experiment. (NASA).

Statistics Tell the Story of Science in Orbit

In 14 years of operations, space station researchers conducted more than 1,500 investigations—detailed in the ISS Utilization Statistics publication.

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Microflow cytometer (CSA)

Weekly Recap From the Expedition Lead Scientist

Expedition 35 is hard at work 200-plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.

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Stephen Roderick supports an autonomous rendezvous and capture test in Goddard's Satellite Servicing Center, an incubator for cutting-edge satellite-servicing technologies. (NASA)

Robotic Refueling Mission Practices New Tasks

RRM uses the space station as a test bed for repair and refueling maneuvers to prepare for in orbit satellite-servicing tasks.

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International Space Station Features

Space Station News Releases

  • NASA Administrator Visits Houston, Meets Media

    05.14.13 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, May 16, to discuss the future of human space exploration and the critical role the International Space Station performs in support of those efforts.

  • Space Station Expedition 35 Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36 Begins

    05.13.13 - Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, wrapping up a mission lasting almost five months. The departure marks the beginning of Expedition 36.

  • NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status

    05.10.13 - NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT).

  • NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth

    05.06.13 - NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.

 

Next Space Station Launch

    Mission: Expedition 36/37
    Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 35 (TMA-09M)
    Date: May 28, 4:31 p.m. EDT
    Launch Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
    Description: Soyuz 35 will carry three Expedition 36/37 crew members to the International Space Station.
    › NASA full launch schedule

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