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Astronaut Mike Fossum With SHERE
The SHERE experiment tests rotation effects on the stress and strain response of a polymer fluid being stretched in microgravity.
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Atlantis’ Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment
A plant experiment flown on Atlantis gave insights to scientists researching bacteria that may help plants produce proteins.
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Voyage to Vaccine Discovery Continues
Any scientist can tell you that research is a time-consuming pursuit. In fact, it can take decades to show results.
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Materials Experiments Home for Analysis
It's been a decade since the first Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE, was deployed on the International Space Station.
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This Time It's Rocket Science AND Surgery
Not all great collaborations are planned. In fact, many of the best partnerships are the work of timing and serendipity.
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Yeast Rising to the Space Station
Chefs across the globe may not know it yet, but their baker’s yeast just left the kitchen and blasted off into low Earth orbit.
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Eleven More
Through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, 11 communities will take part in the final space shuttle flight.
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New Research and Technology Experiments Headed to ISS
Atlantis has launched to the Space Station, carrying research ranging from microscopic cell research to macroscopic technology development equipment.
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NASA's Smartphone-Powered Satellite
NASA is equipping the trio of SPHERES on the space station with a Nexus™ S handset made by Samsung Electronics and powered by Google’s Android™ platform.
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Improving Sleep on the Space Station
It's hard to sleep in a strange place, but just imagine free floating in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth like the International Space Station crew.
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From Backpacking to Space Trekking
NASA to test water purification method for long-duration space exploration.
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Keeping Cool With Heat Pipes on the Space Station
How do you keep electronic and computer components from overheating in space?
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Spiders in Space -- Live!
Ever since they were announced, the spiders in space have been living in the limelight.
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The Calm After the STORRM
After much work and anticipation, STORRM, or Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation, was successfully demonstrated during Endeavour’s recent mission to the International Space Station.
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Space Station Technology Benefits Fine Art
If art is in the eye of the beholder, then space aficionados may hail the International Space Station as a technological masterpiece.
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Students Fly Investigations to the Space Station
In today's classroom, students have the opportunity to take their lessons to a whole new stratosphere.
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Timeline: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Launch
The AMS will be the most advanced charge particle detector flown in space, increasing our knowledge of antimatter and dark matter.
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New Experiments Headed to Station
Space Shuttle Endeavour launched to the International Space Station on May 16, carrying with it a mix of research to be performed.
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Producing Water on the Space Station
Potable water is one of the primary and most important assets for human survival, and stowage in space comes at a premium.
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Spiders in Space – The Sequel!
The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters.