WHY ARE WE SENDING A 3D BIOPRINTER,
OVARIAN CELLS,
AND SEEDS TO THE SPACE STATION?
DOZENS OF NEW EXPERIMENTS WILL SOON ARRIVE AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANITY AND FUTURE MISSIONS TO SPACE
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON BOARD NORTHROP GRUMMAN’S 18TH CARGO MISSION
The BioFabrication Facility will return to space
and in future missions will attempt to 3D print knee cartilage tissue using bioinks and cells.
Researchers will examine a slurry of air, water, and sand
in microgravity to better understand the properties of dangerous mudflows.
Seeds produced by space-grown plants will be returned to Earth, processed, and flown back to space.
Researchers will study if this gives an adaptive advantage to the next generation.
CubeSats developed by students from Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Japan
will acquire Earth data that can be applied by their home countries.
Scientists will study ovarian cells in microgravity to improve fertility treatments
on Earth and prepare for human settlement in space.
THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL JOIN THE HUNDREDS OF ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS
ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY.
FOLLOW @ISS_RESEARCH TO LEARN MORE.
NASA