October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... Sunset line: Morning Mosaic, Celestial Blooms, Stellar Horizon, and Stellar Horizon Pillow. While living in space, Karen Nyberg gained a profound understanding of the interconnectedness of life and our planet. From space, the Earth is very beautiful...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... interaction between space and art, during her International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 37 mission in 2013, astronaut Karen Nyberg became the first astronaut and artist to quilt in space. Not only did she quilt in space but...
July 2014
Life without weight
Astronaut Karen Nyberg looks through a window in the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station (NASA June 2008)
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... be applicable to a Mars colony but some lessons from Earth orbiting space stations can be applied. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg in the Cupola module of the ISS - studies have shown that windows and the ability to view ‘home...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...; the data are normal in an outer space environment and are in accordance with a process of adaptation to zero-g. Karen Nyberg conducts an ocular health exam on herself in the Destiny laboratory of the ISS. Astronauts in zero-g experience increased...
October 2025
Investigating the hidden effects of zero gravity on astronaut vision
As human spaceflight missions grow longer and ambitions for interplanetary travel move closer to reality, understanding the effects of microgravity on astronaut health becomes ever more critical. One of the more recent medical concerns – Spaceflight...
