The event features presentations by the Appleton teacher and the NTC employee who helped get an Appleton student's experiment ...

JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the ...

ESA’s SUCCESS student contest drew to a close last week with an award ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), in Cologne, Germany. With the first prize of a one-year ESA internship up for ...

STRASBOURG, FRANCE – Students of the International Space University (ISU) have for the first time successfully conducted an experiment of their making on the International Space Station (ISS). Dr.

Some of the first experiments in space dealt with gravity and weightlessness. They were somewhat simple studies to test the new environment. Alan Shepard was the first man to hit a golf ball on the ...

How do plants adapt when they go into space? That’s the question the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) hopes to answer with a novel space-based experiment ...

A university professor is about to venture out of this world to carry out a science experiment decades in the making. Robert Ferl, director of the University of Florida's UF Astraeus Space Institute, ...

A professor at the University of Florida is set to become the first ever academic funded by NASA to do their own experiment in space. Dr. Robert Ferl is the director of UF's Astraeus Space Institute.

In what some may describe as the most important microgravity experiment ever to have taken place on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit has attempted to enter a pair of ...

"The opportunity to expand access to microgravity research upon the world's first commercial space station is historic." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio services the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) on the International Space Station, designed, built and tested by Purdue and NASA’s Glenn Research Center. While ...