Browse Archive
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Burning Fuel in Space, Saving Fuel on Earth?
The price of gas is skyrocketing, but thankfully so is a potential mitigation.
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Contingency Planning for Preserving Samples
Preserving samples aboard the International Space Station is critical because refrigeration repair companies don't make house calls in space.
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Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies
Astronaut Fred Haise was a long way from home when he became sick with an infection caused by an opportunistic pathogen known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Students Get Fit the Astronaut Way
Mission X uses the same skills used to train astronauts to motivate physical education for students around the globe.
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The Marangoni Effect: A Fluid Phenom
Observing wine in a glass is a good way to see and understand a surface-tension experiment being performed in space.
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Payload Operations Center Marks 10 Years
The Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Center is celebrating a decade of round-the-clock support to the International Space Station.
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NASA Studies the Body's Ability to Fight Infection
Why do some people get sick while others stay healthy?
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Time to Fly: SAGE III - ISS Prepped for Space Station
After nine years in a clean room, the SAGE III instrument returns to service measuring the Earth's atmosphere and ozone layer.
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Boiling Bubbles are Cool in Space
It may seem illogical, but boiling is an efficient way to cool engineering components and systems used in extreme space environments.
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ISS Window Observational Research Facility
Like a human who just went through laser vision correction, the International Space Station (ISS) recently got a clearer view of our world.
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Discovering Discovery's Payloads for STS-133
Space shuttle Discovery carries not only the STS-133 crewmembers, but also some fascinating research and technology.
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NASA Seeks Non-profit Group for National Lab Research
NASA seeks a non-profit group to manage space station research under its designation as an official U.S. National Laboratory.
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University of Kentucky Experiments with Radiation
The University of Kentucky charts the way for university students to perform experiments on the International Space Station.
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International Partners Discuss Space Station
NASA and its international partners recently discussed the benefits of research on the International Space Station at an outreach seminar.
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WORF First Image Web Feature
British Columbia, the first official image taken from the International Space Station's new Window Observational Research Facility, or WORF.
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Gardening in Space with HydroTropi
The HydroTropi experiment aboard the International Space Station has astronauts putting their green thumbs to the test.
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A New Year, a New Era of Utilization
The new year is here, and along with it a new era of utilization for research and technology begins for the completed International Space Station.
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Students Blaze a Trail for Space Station Research
Students at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, California are not waiting for the university setting for ignition on their dreams.
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Zero Robotics Challenges Student Programmers
Attention Zero Robotics 2010 contestants! Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to complete the autonomous assembly of a structure in space.
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Kids in Micro-g Deadline Dec. 8
There’s just a little bit of time left for students to submit proposals for NASA's "Kids in Micro-g" challenge.