Sentences with phrase «spaceflight experiments»

NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) developed the Rodent Research - 1 spaceflight experiments.

Future spaceflight experiments that examine a variety of other bacterial species under differing growth conditions could help explain changes in bacterial growth and virulence that could significantly affect people living in space.

Mission 5 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 11.

Another investigation that will be taking place is the NanoRacks - National Center for Earth and Space Science - Charlie Brown, in association with the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP).

Not exact matches

He entered orbit not as a tourist but rather as a civilian astronaut whose to - do list included snapping nearly 500 pictures of Earth and participating in a series of experiments to test spaceflight's impact on his immune system, sleep patterns and eyes.

The research team prepared identical sets of GAPs for the concurrent spaceflight and ground experiments.

The basic research conducted in the ISS lab also has a direct practical benefit: «The experiment provides key data that enables us to gauge the risk on future spaceflights more effectively,» says Ullrich.

These types of experiments are important to NASA as they prepare for long - duration spaceflights, Ochoa said.

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

The GeneLab project houses spaceflight and spaceflight relevant multi-omics data in a publicly accessible data commons, and collaborates with NASA - funded principal investigators to enable omics analyses on their experiments.

The program actually involves two competitions: The first competition will select a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teacher; applicants will be asked to submit a proposal for an experiment that can be performed on a suborbital spaceflight.