Register now to ask questions of researchers during the webinar CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. , Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory and NASA will host a webinar to discuss upcoming research and technology development projects launching on SpaceX's 31 st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for NASA to the orbiting outpost.
This webinar will showcase how research on the space station is enabling innovation, benefiting humanity, and driving a sustainable market economy in low Earth orbit. The webinar is scheduled to take place Wednesday, October 23 at 1 p.m.
EDT . Investigations on this mission are slated to launch to the space station onboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in the coming weeks from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the webinar, Kristin Kopperud , ISS National Lab science program director, and Meghan Everett , NASA's deputy chief scientist for the International Space Station Program, will provide programmatic insights.
They will then be joined by the following expected speakers to highlight specific research investigations on the mission: Agata Zupanska, research scientist at the SETI Institute: Zupanska will provide an overview of the NASA-sponsored ARTEMOSS project, which will examine whether Antarctic moss recovers from the impacts of cosmic radiation and microgravity, and if so, how. Results could inform the development of plants that are tolerant of conditions in deep space for .
