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Director of the Wellness and Health Enhancement Engineering Laboratory at DePaul University: Tommy Newsom: Assistant Musical Director of the Tonight Show band Tzipora Obziler: Israeli tennis player [10] Zach Pascal: 2016 NFL player (Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals) [11] Shomi Patwary: Director [12 ...
Expedition 8 Commander and Science Officer Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox. ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, STS-116 mission specialist, works with the Passive Observatories for Experimental Microbial Systems in Micro-G (POEMS) payload in the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) inside the Destiny laboratory.
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) was a NASA program to spur the development of private spacecraft and launch vehicles for deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS). Launched in 2006, COTS successfully concluded in 2013 after completing all demonstration flights.
The ISS has been an operational science platform since the installation of the Destiny module in February 2001. [3] The 2005 NASA Authorization Act designated the U.S. segment of ISS as a National Lab in order to "...help improve life on Earth, foster relationships among NASA, other Federal agencies, and the private sector, and advance STEM ...
The US National Lab conducts research in life sciences, physical sciences, technology development and remote sensing for a wide variety of academic, government and commercial users. [3] Researchers choose to conduct experiments in space because of the unique effects that microgravity, or weightlessness, has on physical and biological phenomena ...
The last major AO for ISS was in 2009, where the one for experiments in Life Sciences was internationally coordinated with NASA, JAXA and CSA and named ILSRA-09 (International Life Science Research Announcement). In parallel ESA issued the AO-2009 for physical sciences on ISS and physics/lifescience experiments on Sounding Rockets.
Harmony was launched on 23 October 2007 aboard of the STS-120, as the primary component of assembly mission ISS-10A. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On 26 October 2007, the station's Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) removed Harmony from the shuttle cargo bay and temporarily mated it to the port side of Unity and, on 27 October 2007, the ...
Astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams bungeed to the TVIS treadmill aboard the International Space Station.. The Treadmill with Vibration Isolation Stabilization System, commonly abbreviated as TVIS, is a treadmill for use on board the International Space Station and is designed to allow astronauts to run without vibrating delicate microgravity science experiments in adjacent labs.