Tag: NASA
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Immune Cell Chips to Launch into Space for Microgravity Tests
Chip devices with human immune system and stem cells are among the cargo set for launch today to the International Space Station.
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Faster Crop Breeding Techniques Made Available to Other Scientists
Plant scientists in the U.K. and Australia are making available to their colleagues experimental techniques that speed-up breeding cycles for more commercial crop varieties.
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NASA Boosts 3-D Printing, Lasers in Space Manufacturing
The federal government’s space agency is supporting two projects for improving the capabilities of astronauts to create and repair their equipment during space travel.
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Infographic — International Space Station Crew Members
Our friends at Statista published a chart showing the nations represented among ISS crew members since it become operational, our infographic for this weekend.
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Electronic Skins Add Robotic Functions to Objects
An engineering lab developed a way to integrate electronic sensors and motors into flexible materials, which can be added to inanimate objects to give them robotic functions.
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Students Form Microsatellite Rocket Launch Company
Current and former Purdue University engineering students transformed their interest in rocketry into a new enterprise for launching small lower-cost satellites into low-earth orbit from high-altitude balloons.
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Continuous Flow Manufacturing In Space Station Test
Among the experiments carried to the International Space Station in mid-December is a test of continuous separations of one liquid from another, used in drug and chemical manufacturing.
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Techniques Devised to Speed-Up Plant Breeding
Plant scientists in Australia and the U.K. developed a process that sharply cuts the amount of time needed to produce new breeds of plant crops including commercial varieties of wheat.
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Will We Live To See Mars Colonized?
Humanity has overcome some pretty steep odds in the past, so who knows. Is colonizing Mars actually viable?
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Parkinson’s Protein Experiment in Space Station Cargo
An experiment to grow a crystallized form of protein associated with Parkinson’s disease is among the cargo that lifted off today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.