WHY ARE WE SENDING SLIME MOLDS
REGOLITH SIMULANT
NEW SCIENCE HARDWARE
AND MUSCLE CELLS TO THE SPACE STATION?
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS A LAB LIKE NO OTHER.
A NORTHROP GRUMMAN CYGNUS WILL SOON DELIVER DOZENS OF NEW EXPERIMENTS.
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON BOARD NORTHROP GRUMMAN’S 16TH CARGO MISSION.
REDWIRE REGOLITH PRINT
SCIENTISTS WILL TEST 3D PRINTING IN SPACE USING MATERIAL SIMULATING LUNAR AND MARTIAN SOIL.
THIS PROCESS COULD EVENTUALLY BE USED TO CONSTRUCT HABITATS ON OTHER PLANETS.
CARDINAL MUSCLE
RESEARCHERS WILL TEST THERAPEUTIC DRUGS MEANT TO DIMINISH MUSCLE LOSS
USING MUSCLE CELLS CULTURED IN MICROGRAVITY.
KENTUCKY RE-ENTRY PROBE EXPERIMENT (KREPE)
CAPSULES WILL DEPLOY WHEN CYGNUS RE-ENTERS THE ATMOSPHERE
AND TRANSMIT DATA TO TEST AN AFFORDABLE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM.
FOUR BED CO2 SCRUBBER
THIS STUDY DEMONSTRATES A SPACECRAFT CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL TECHNOLOGY.
THE SCRUBBER INCLUDES MECHANICAL UPGRADES AND AN IMPROVED ABSORBANT.
FLOW BOILING AND CONDENSATION EXPERIMENT (FBCE)
A NEW FACILITY WILL ENABLE EXPERIMENTS THAT COULD SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS
TO MANY THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS IN MICROGRAVITY.
BLOB
FRENCH STUDENTS WILL REPLICATE STUDIES CONDUCTED IN ORBIT TO SEE HOW SLIME MOLDS’ BEHAVIOR IS AFFECTED BY MICROGRAVITY.
THE STUDENTS WILL COMPARE THE MOLD SPEED, SHAPE, AND GROWTH.
THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL JOIN THE HUNDREDS OF ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY.
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