October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... in 1991 and was selected for the NASA Astronaut Corp in 2000, participating in two missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 and 2013, accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... spacecraft too. High-level mass streams in an algal life support system. To support astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS), we currently resupply about seven tons of water and five tons of food a year. This is in addition to the...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... leak in a Soyuz return spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) have been stepped up as it was revealed this... might do such a thing given the obvious danger to the Space Station and its crew. “The theory one about a meteorite impact...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
... applications of CAL’s research. The Cold Atom Laboratory is a facility on the International Space Station (ISS) which utilises the unique microgravity environment in space. In July 2018, scientists used the lab to produce Bose-Einstein condensate...
