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  • Blue laser light (top center) flashed from the Lozano Observatory, about 40 miles north of San Antonio, as seen from the orbiting International Space Station. (NASA)

    Beaming Success for Station Fans

    03.23.12 - Did you ever use a flashlight to send a Morse code message to your neighbor at night as a kid?

  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi watches a water bubble float freely between him and the camera the Kibo laboratory. (NASA)

    Cargo Ship Carries Investigations to the Space Station

    03.23.12 - When the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with supplies.

  • The Edoardo Amaldi Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 launches

    European Cargo Ship Launches to Space Station

    03.23.12 - The European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the European space port in Kourou, French Guiana, at 12:34 a.m. EDT Friday, beginning a six-day journey to the International Space Station.

  • During a previous Tomatosphere program, students studied the growth of their tomato plants. (Tomatosphere)

    Red Food For the Red Planet

    Among the many issues space programs face as they develop plans to send a human mission to Mars, the question of life support ranks near the top.

  • The SMILES investigation is the first global atmospheric environmental observation from Japanese Experiment Module in the International Space Station. (NICT)

    Japan Shares Space Station SMILES

    03.19.12 - Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth's atmosphere?

  • VZV infected MeWo cells showing typical herpes-virus-induced multinucleated giant cells. (NASA)

    Early Detection of Immune Changes Prevents Shingles

    Stress associated with spaceflight can reactivate the virus that causes shingles, a disease punctuated by painful skin lesions.

  • Launch abort engine hot fire test

    Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Tests Launch Abort Engine

    03.13.12 - The hot-fire tests supported The Boeing Company's development of its CST-100 spacecraft in NASA's Commercial Crew Development Round 2.

  • Robonaut and spacesuit-gloved hands

    Robotic Technology Lends More Than Just a Helping Hand

    03.13.12 - While Robonaut has been busy testing its technology aboard station, NASA and GM have been working together to find new uses of those technologies.

  • The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) module on the International Space Station before it was installed on its permanent platform. (NASA)

    NASA, CSA Advance Satellite Servicing

    03.12.12 - Robotic Refueling Mission on the ISS demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools performing precise satellite-servicing tasks.

  • Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (Expedition 15) works with the Photospectrometric System or FSS used for Uragan. (XX)

    Investigation of Earth Catastrophes From the Station

    The Uragan program aboard the Russian segment of the space station uses photography to study Earth's natural resources by monitoring catastrophes.

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