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Science in Space – April 2024

Climate Change Research

The International Space Station, one of dozens of NASA missions contributing to this effort, has multiple instruments collecting various types of climate-related data.

The Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (comprised of a pressurized module and exposed facility, a logistics module, a remote manipulator system and an inter-orbit communication system unit) was pictured as the International Space Station orbited over the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

The Kibo laboratory module from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (comprised of a pressurized module and exposed facility, a logistics module, a remote manipulator system and an inter-orbit communication system unit) pictured as the International Space Station orbits over the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand.

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NASA to Host a Pair of Briefings for Starliner Crew Flight

NASA will host two media opportunities on Thursday, April 25, in preparation for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. The mission is targeting launch at 10:34 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 6, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for their mission in the company’s Starliner spacecraft simulator at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for their mission in the company’s Starliner spacecraft simulator at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara Discusses Space Station Mission

After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara participates in a news conference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, April 15, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Loral O’Hara, Expedition 70 Science Highlights

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara poses in front of the Kibo laboratory module's Advanced Plant Habitat housing tomato plants for an experiment investigating how the plant immune system adapts to spaceflight and how spaceflight affects plant production.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara poses in front of the Kibo laboratory module’s Advanced Plant Habitat.

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NASA Shares Medical Expertise with New Space Station Partners

NASA is opening access to space for more people by working with private industry on the development of new commercial space stations for low Earth orbit where the agency’s astronauts could fly in the future.

NASA experts from the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program and Human Health and Performance Directorate with the agency’s commercial space station partners at the medical operations meeting series at Johnson Space Center in Houston (from top to bottom, left to right: Ben Easter, Dan Buckland, Tom Marshburn, Brian Musselman, Ted Duchesne, Darren Locke, Stephen Hart, Dana Levin, Liz Warren, Kris Lehnhardt, Kristin Coffey, Mary Van Baalan, Molly McCormick, Stephanne Plogger, John Allen, Brad Rhodes, Kimberly-Michelle Price Lowe, Lindsey Hieb, Anna Grinberg, Jay Boucher, Rahul Suresh, Jackeylynn Silva-Martinez, Melinda Hailey, Joey Arias, Wayne Surrett).

NASA experts from the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program and Human Health and Performance Directorate with the agency’s commercial space station partners at the medical operations meeting series at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA/David DeHoyos

Station Research Features and Articles

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Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures,…

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NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during…

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NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the…

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Station Press Releases and Media Advisories

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Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Thursday, April 18, 2024, to reflect a change in the participant list. NASA…

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Students from Syracuse City School District and Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, will have an opportunity this week…

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After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will participate in a news conference at 10:45…

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Astronaut Nicole Mann works on the BioNutrients-2 investigation

Astronaut Nicole Mann works on the BioNutrients-2 investigation to provide nutrients on demand in space.

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