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Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years
As of November 2023, students have been talking to astronauts in space for 40 years. Crew members on the space shuttle Columbia first used an amateur radio to communicate with people on Earth in 1983.
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Science on Station: November 2023
As an orbiting microgravity laboratory, the International Space Station hosts experiments from almost every scientific field. It also is home to educational programs to encourage young people worldwide to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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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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Station Research Features and Articles
Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years
In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle…
Inspiring Students with Ham Radio, Other Educational Programs
Science on Station: November 2023 As an orbiting microgravity laboratory, the International Space Station hosts experiments from almost every scientific…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Sets Stage for Quantum Chemistry in Space
The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the…
Station Press Releases and Media Advisories
NASA, SpaceX Launch New Science, Hardware to Space Station
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 29th commercial resupply mission, scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced…
Join NASA to Discuss High-Rate Laser Comms Demo, Space Station Science
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Oct. 23 to update the list of participants for the teleconference. NASA will host…
NASA Airs Coverage of Space Station Research, Development Conference
NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing…
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