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.
The Tumor Oracle: How a Startup is Using the ISS to Outwit Cancer
This tumor-on-a-chip system is a diagnostic device that sends microtumors into space to forecast how the cancer will respond to chemotherapy before the patient ever takes a dose.
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From High School Labs to the ISS
How Genes in Space Shaped the Future of Four Young Scientists
As kids, their ambitions were sky-high. Kaylie Hausknecht imagined herself as a neurosurgeon and idolized Albert Einstein, even dressing up as the physicist for a third-grade project. Aarthi Vijayakumar pictured a future in medicine or science. Anna-Sophia Boguraev gazed at the stars, hoping to become an astronaut, and Jonathan Chang envisioned a career in the NBA but recognized that his true strengths lay in math and science.
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