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.
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Up to date information on award announcements, research heading to the space station, educational opportunities and much more!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lab-in-a-Box’ Aims to Leverage ISS National Lab to Help Improve Drug Manufacturing
Facility enabling pharmaceutical companies and researchers to grow small-batch crystals for protein-based pharmaceuticals.
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NSF-Funded Solicitation for Tissue Engineering Research
For the seventh consecutive year, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a solicitation seeking projects that utilize the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to advance tissue engineering and mechanobiology research.
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Station Experiment Tests Antimicrobial Coating for Long-Term Space Missions
As humans travel to Mars and beyond, where resupply from and return to Earth is difficult to impossible, monitoring and controlling every aspect of life onboard spacecraft is essential—down to the tiniest microbes.
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ISSRDC Conference
The ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) offers technical sessions and lightning talks, which allow researchers to share their experiences in leveraging the unique space environment of the space station to advance research and technology development.
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If you have any questions or require general information from the ISS National Laboratory, here are some ways you can contact them.
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