ISS National Laboratory
Fostering scientific and technological innovation, advancing US leadership in commercial space, and inspiring the next generation.
About ISS National Lab
In an effort to expand the research opportunities of this unparalleled platform, the ISS was designated as a U.S. National Laboratory in 2005 by Congress, enabling space research and development access to a broad range of commercial, academic, and government users.
News
Up to date information on award announcements, research heading to the space station, educational opportunities and much more!
Areas of Research
The International Space Station National Laboratory is a functioning research laboratory with the tools and facilities needed to translate traditional ground-based experiments into flight-ready payloads.
Solicitations
The International Space Station National Laboratory is a crewed low Earth orbit (LEO) platform for research, development, and education that inspires innovation and provides opportunities for discovery to benefit humankind.
ISS National Lab Reports
As part of strategic initiatives to enable science in space for life on Earth, the ISS National Lab hosts workshops in the life and physical sciences, remote sensing, and technology to explore research areas with high likelihood for rapid knowledge advancement and the potential to support commercialization of low Earth orbit.
ISS National Lab Contact
If you have any questions or require general information from the ISS National Laboratory, here are some ways you can contact them.
ISS National Lab Partners with ASCEND
ASCEND 2025 to feature ISS National Lab-led sessions on investment, workforce development, and ensuring a vibrant and continuous research pipeline in space.
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space® (CASIS®), manager of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, is joining forces with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) to expand programming for the upcoming ASCEND events in Las Vegas July 22-24, 2025, and in Washington, D.C. in 2026.
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Axiom-4 Partners with ISS National Lab
Axiom Mission 4 partners with ISS National Lab to conduct the most research to date on a private astronaut mission
Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will launch more research than any previous private Axiom Space mission, including more than two dozen investigations sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory®. With more than 60 experiments representing 31 countries, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) demonstrates the growing demand from researchers to leverage the space station.
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NASA’s latest SpaceX resupply mission to the space station returns with ISS National Lab-sponsored science
The SpaceX-32 resupply mission returns with ISS National Lab-sponsored projects advancing biomedical research, technology development, and physical sciences.
Experiments returning on SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA include a project to manufacture nanomaterials in space to treat osteoarthritis and cancer on Earth and several investigations funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
Learn More about NASA’s latest SpaceX resupply mission to the space station returns with ISS National Lab-sponsored science
