National Lab Research Opportunities: Announcements of Opportunities, Cooperative Agreement Notices, Requests for Info or for Proposals, Solicitations
CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) welcomes unsolicited proposals for research and product development that might be suitable for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory. For more information, please see:
http://www.iss-casis.org/Opportunities/UnsolicitedProposals.aspx
Current Opportunities
NASA Research Announcement: Research Opportunities for International Space Station Utilization, Solicitation: NNJ13ZBG001N (November 14, 2012)
> Link to Solicitation
CASIS Announces Upcoming Requests for Proposals in Materials Science and Earth Observational Science
> Link to Press Release
Past Opportunities
CASIS Announces Request for Information: Development of Strategies for Support of Stem Cell Research (March 28, 2013)
> Link to RFI
CASIS Announces Request for Information: Utilization of Existing ISS Hyperspectral Imaging for Commercial Product Development (November 12, 2012)
> Link to RFI
CASIS Announces Request for Proposal for Materials Testing in the Extreme Environment of Space (Sept. 4, 2012)
> Link to Materials Science RFP
CASIS Announces First Solicitation for Proposals: Advancing Protein Crystallization in Microgravity (June 26, 2012)
> Link to Solicitation
> View additional NASA research opportunities
Customer Service Helpline
The International Space Station Research Integration Office has both a phone (281-244-6187) and an email (
jsc-iss-research-helpline@mail.nasa.gov) customer service helpline that Payload Developers and others interested in doing research on board the ISS can contact to get assistance or to get more information on research facilities. The phone is staffed during regular business hours, or messages may be issued after hours, and a representative will return the call on the next business day.
If you have questions regarding NASA badging, security, or remote computer online access (e.g., to NASA internal websites, ISS Payloads documentation, etc.), please download and read this
Access Processes for Payload Developers document. For further info or assistance with these issues, please contact
Mr. Jim Cochrane at: 281-244-6385.
