What’s On Board Briefing

Julie Robinson, Ph.D., International Space Station (ISS) Program scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, left, and Michael Roberts, deputy chief scientist, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), which manages the U.S. National Laboratory aboard the ISS, speak to social media participants in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on more than 250 science investigations that will take place during Expeditions 48 and 49. A Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to be launched July 18 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s ninth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.

Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett