WHY ARE WE SENDING HEART TISSUES
BIOFILMS
AND BACTERIA TO SPACE?
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 THE 27TH SPACEX CARGO MISSION
3D cultured cardiac muscle tissues are returning to microgravity
to help develop new therapies for cardiac dysfunction on Earth.
Radiotolerant organisms exposed to the space environment could reveal clues
to the survivability of these organisms in space and the origins of life on Earth.
Researchers are sending heart organoids back to space to test drug combinations
that may reduce microgravity-induced changes in heart cell function.
A student-manufactured project will provide an easier way for
astronauts to position video and still cameras in the middle of a module.
Astronauts will control liquids using capillary forces over a range of liquid viscosities
to inform the design of more efficient carbon dioxide removal systems in space.
Researchers continue to analyze bacterial biofilm formation
and the antimicrobial properties of metal surfaces in microgravity.
THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL JOIN THE HUNDREDS OF ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS
ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY.
FOLLOW @ISS_RESEARCH TO LEARN MORE.
NASA