Laboratory Research and Experiments

Scientists conducting various experiments in a laboratory setting, utilizing microscopes, petri dishes, and computer analysis to advance research.

Female technichian working on open computer, using measuring device

STS-131 NASA & WALTER REED HOSPITAL TISSUE GROWTH EXPERIMENTS - FLIGHT PREPS

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, research scientists prepare the plant pillows for the Veg-03 experiment that will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard the eighth SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply mission. Dr. Mathew Mickens, a post-doctoral researcher, inserts a bonding agent into one of the Veg-03 plant pillows. The Veg-03 plant pillows will contain ‘Tokyo Bekana cabbage seeds and lettuce seeds for NASAs third Veggie plant growth system experiment. The experiment will continue NASAs deep space plant growth research to benefit the Earth and the agencys journey to Mars.

Antibiogram in a petri dish reading by an automaton, Angouleme hospital laboratory, France.

Male scientist in face mask using computer in laboratory

Photo documentary on bioprinting. Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) is working with a bioprinter from regenHU to produce different human tissues. Bioprinting allows three dimensional tissue production in a fast and controlled manner by the precise positioning of primary cells, biomaterials and growth factors. Thereby, bioprinted tissues simulate the complex in vivo situation of our body. Tissues are produced in a layer by layer mode by alternating photopolymerized bioink and cells. Before using for substance testing the tissue are matured in a cell culture environment. In future, printed tissues could reduce animal experiments in drug development and foster regenerative medicine. Observing printed muscle tissue under a microscope.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the Space Life Sciences Laboratory near NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dr. David J. Smith, a microbiologist in the Surface Systems Office, prepares microbes that will be deployed for the Microorganisms in the Stratosphere, or MIST, mission. High altitudes exert a unique combination of stresses on microbes, outside the range of conditions normally encountered on the Earth's surface. Results from MIST may improve our understanding of the physical limits and habitable environments for life.The MIST mission will fly a small biological payload aboard a blimp in July to measure the microbial survival and cellular responses to exposure in the upper atmosphere. Later in the year, the MIST mission will deploy samples at even higher altitudes in the stratosphere using scientific balloons.

Female technichian working on open computer, using measuring device

Emily Kennebeck, an intern at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, assembles plant pillows inside the Space Station Processing Facility on Jan. 16, 2020. The pillows, which are a common method used to grow plants in space, are being sent to the International Space Station for a series of VEG-03 experiments that will study the growth of three types of leafy greens and a new seed handling material in a microgravity environment. The experiments will be launched to the orbiting laboratory aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on the companys 13th resupply services mission. Liftoff is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2020, at 5:39 p.m. EST from the agencys Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. Electronic Computing Department. Analysing hard drives and memory cards.

Scientist analyzing bacterial colonies

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Lauren White, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, adjusts an experiment that simulates how ancient seawater and fluid from hydrothermal vents could have reacted with minerals from the seafloor to create organic molecules 4.5 billion years ago. The image was taken at JPL in 2014.

Post-baccalaureate fellow in the NIAID Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research uses a dissecting microscope to perform morphological identification of preserved mosquito specimens. Credit: NIAID

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Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. Finger Print Department.

Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission samples provided to UC Berkeley for analysis by NASA Dr Andrew Westphal, Berkeley Physicist with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist oversee sample analysis

Kriminaltechnisches Institut, KTI, Forensic Science Institute, fingerprinting, fingerprints on evidence are made visible with the help of UV light and special filters, police, Landeskriminalamt, LKA, State Criminal Police Office, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Instrumentation and recorded data in the genetics lab at Abernathy Fish Technology Center. Subjects: Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes. Location: Washington. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ABERNATHY FISH TECHNOLOGY CENTER.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, April Spinale, a payload integration specialist with Bionetics, and Ray Polniak, a quality assurance specialist with Dynamac, fill vials with clear water during an acceptance leak test on the hardware for the Protein Crystal Growth 2 experiment. They are both consultants for the Center for Advancement of Science in Space, or CASIS. The experiment is one of many that will be delivered to the International Space Station on the SpaceX-4 commercial cargo resupply mission.Kennedy's ISS Ground Processing and Research Project Office is providing the necessary laboratories, equipment, supplies and consumables for 61 principal investigators, including 17 from other countries, as they prepare their science experiments for flight. The SpaceX-4 flight is targeted to launch in September 2014.

Zeiss 510 Meta confocal microscope.

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, research scientists prepare the plant pillows for the Veg-03 experiment that will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard the eighth SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply mission. From left, are Matt Romeyn, NASA pathways intern; Dr. Gioia Massa, NASA payload scientist for Veggie; and Dr. Mathew Mickens, a post-doctoral researcher. The Veg-03 plant pillows will contain ‘Tokyo Bekana cabbage seeds and lettuce seeds for NASAs third Veggie plant growth system experiment. The experiment will continue NASAs deep space plant growth research to benefit the Earth and the agencys journey to Mars.

Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. Entomology Department. Date of death is determined by studying the insects present in the corpse.

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Michele Koralewicz, a mechanical technician with EASI on the Engineering Services Contract, sews up the end of a bag that contains one of the Veg-03 plant pillows. The Veg-03 experiment will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard the eighth SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply mission. The Veg-03 plant pillows will contain ‘Tokyo Bekana cabbage seeds and lettuce seeds for NASAs third Veggie plant growth system experiment. The experiment will continue NASAs deep space plant growth research to benefit the Earth and the agencys journey to Mars.

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EuCROPIS EVT-2 Power Cell in N-239 Lab, Ivan Paulino-Lima with Petri dish and burner

University of Alabama engineer Lance Weiss briefs NASA astronaut Dr. Bornie Dunbar about the design and capabilities of the X-ray Crystallography Facility under development at the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, April 21, 1999. The X-ray Crystallography Facility is designed to speed the collection of protein structure information from crystals grown aboard the International Space Station. By measuring and mapping the protein crystal structure in space, researchers will avoid exposing the delicate crystals to the rigors of space travel and make important research data available to scientists much faster. The X-ray Crystallography facility is being designed and developed by the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a NASA Commercial Space Center.

Research on chronic bacterial infections within Inserm. PhD student working on brucellosis bacteria with the help of a flow cytometer.

Study on opportunistic infections to the Burkholderia cepacia complex using Zebra Fish embryos.

Yvette Gillies with avian influenza bird swab vials at the Bird Lab, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage. This image taken between June 14 - June 20, 2006. Subjects: Work of the Service; Avian Influenza; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, QinetiQ North America Project Manager Carole Miller, left, works with Allison Caron, a QinetiQ mechanical engineer in preparing the Biotube experiment which will be launched to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Scheduled for launch on March 16 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon will be marking its fourth trip to the space station. The SpaceX-3 mission is the third of 12 flights contracted by NASA to resupply the orbiting laboratory.

Research on chronic bacterial infections within Inserm. PhD student working on brucellosis bacteria with the help of a flow cytometer.

Reportage in the French National Police's Criminal Research Institute in Rosny-sous-Bois, France. Finger Print Department.

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Scientist analyzing data on a computer in a modern laboratory.

Man looking through microscope in a factory

Diabetic patients may someday reduce their insulin injections and lead more normal lives because of new insights gained through irnovative space research in which insulin crystals were grown on the Space Shuttle. Results from a 1994 insulin crystal growth experiment in space are leading to a new understanding of protein insulin. Lack of insulin is the cause of diabetes, a desease that accounts for one-seventh of the nation's health care costs. Dr. Marianna Long, associate director of the Center of Macromolecular Crystallography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a co-investigator on the research.

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Engineers from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, remove samples on May 4, 2015, from Orion's heat shield which flew on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. The heat shield protected the spacecraft from temperatures reaching 4000 degrees F. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

Astronaut Scott Kelly initiated VEG-01 B, the second crop of lettuce, on July, 8, 2015, and both Kelly and Astronaut Kjell Lindgren cared for the plants. The crop grew for 33 days. VEG-01 B included one set of six plant pillows planted with red romaine lettuce seeds. On Aug. 10, 2015, the crew harvested and consumed leaves from each plant. This was the first crop grown and consumed in NASA hardware. They harvested the rest of the plant tissue and froze it in the stations Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) for return to Earth for further study including microbial analysis, antioxidant capacity, mineral analysis and anthocyanin concentration.

Kepler project; technicians from Ball Aerospace work on and in the test chamber assembled at Nasa Ames Research center testing components

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Independent inventor Peter Homer, founder of Flagsuit LLC, inserts a glove which he designed into a glove box for a dexterity and flexibility test during the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge, part of NASAs Centennial Challenges Program, at the Astronaut Hall of Fame near NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Homer was the winner of the competition held in 2007.The nationwide competition focused on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts to use while working in space. During the challenge, inventors tested the gloves to measure dexterity and strength during operation in a glove box which simulates the vacuum of space. Centennial Challenges is NASAs program of technology prizes for the citizen-inventor. The winning prize for the Glove Challenge is $250,000 provided by the Centennial Challenges Program.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Students listen intently as a laboratory technician describes the experiment being conducted in Kennedys Space Life Sciences Laboratory (SLSL).High-school students from two Orlando, Fla., schools travelled to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida to participate in National Lab Day activities. During the event, about 80 students, toured various facilities and engaged in educational hands-on activities. National Lab Day is a partnership between federal agencies, foundations, professional societies and organizations devoted to promoting science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, hands-on discovery-based laboratory experiences for students.

Scientist adjusting human brain slide on microscope while examining at laboratory

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- On Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance technicians check the list of activities completed on the mating of the nine solid rocket boosters to the Delta II rocket for the launch of NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The GLAST is a powerful space observatory that will explore the Universe's ultimate frontier, where nature harnesses forces and energies far beyond anything possible on Earth; probe some of science's deepest questions, such as what our Universe is made of, and search for new laws of physics; explain how black holes accelerate jets of material to nearly light speed; and help crack the mystery of stupendously powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts. Launch is currently planned in a window between 11:45 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. May 16.

Female Scientist Counting Microplastic Particles In A Sample Of Water From The Ocean

jsc2019e041779 (7/25/2019) --- A view of Dr. Josephine Allen assembling the KEU-RO experiment units for STaARS BioScience-3 experiment. The Spaceflight Effects on Vascular Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cell Process (STaARS BioScience-3) investigation contributes to a greater understanding of cardiovascular disease (CVD) through the study of transcriptomics of vascular cells. Upon return from spaceflight, crew members often display alterations in their cardiovascular systems, similar to those suffering from CVD. The goal of this work is to elucidate the mechanism of vascular cell damage in the space environment by exposing vascular cells to spaceflight.

PHOTO DATE: 10-27-09LOCATION: Bldg 9NW, ISS MockupSUBJECT: Expedition 23 astronaut Tracy Caldwell during Regenerative ECLSS training with instructor Cindy Koester.

Technician counting sperm and analysing their motility. Medically Assisted Procreation Laboratory, Limoges hospital, France.

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Michele Koralewicz, a mechanical technician with EASI on the Engineering Services Contract, sews up the end of a bag that contains one of the Veg-03 plant pillows. The Veg-03 experiment will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard the eighth SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply mission. The Veg-03 plant pillows will contain ‘Tokyo Bekana cabbage seeds and lettuce seeds for NASAs third Veggie plant growth system experiment. The experiment will continue NASAs deep space plant growth research to benefit the Earth and the agencys journey to Mars.

Research on chronic bacterial infections within Inserm. PhD student working on brucellosis bacteria with the help of a flow cytometer.

Biologist of the research group Aquatic Ecosystems at the microscope, during her research work on isopod spiders (Pantopoda), at the Faculty of Biology in the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Biological Scientist

Stem cell research, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, laboratory technician observing nerve cells through a microscope, Berlin, Germany, Europe

NASA Earth & Space Air Prize Demonstration Event

Jerry Buhrow, an engineer in the Materials Analysis Lab, places a sample on a thermal testing unit inside a lab at NASA Kennedy Space Centers Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Oct. 6, 2020.

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The Orion team visits Southern California Braiding in Bell Gardens, CA on Jan. 29, 2014. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

On Jan. 21, 2020, inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, intern Emily Kennebeck (left) and Jess Bunchek, a pseudonaut and associate scientist, prepare plant pillows for their flight to the International Space Station. The pillows, which are a common method used to grow plants in space, are being sent to the orbiting laboratory on Northrop Grummans 13th resupply services (NG-13) mission for a series of VEG-03 experiments that will study the growth of three types of leafy greens in a microgravity environment. Once the pillows are assembled and packaged for flight, they will be transported to the agencys Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, where liftoff will occur. NG-13 is scheduled to launch on Feb. 9, 2020, at 5:39 p.m. EST.

Study on opportunistic infections with Burkholderia cepacia complex using Zebra Fish embryos

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Report on PET imaging. Positron Emission Tomography, or PET Scan, is used for the diagnosis and monitoring of cancer patients. This method makes it possible to detect a tumor thanks to a radioactive product which accumulates in an excessive way in the cells presenting a pathological hypermetabolism. Here, the scintigraphist doctor interprets the results. Full body imagery is viewed. On the screen, no visible anomaly.

Research on chronic bacterial infections within Inserm. PhD student working on brucellosis bacteria with the help of a flow cytometer.

Research on the retina. The unit 592 of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research carries research specialized in cellular and molecular pathophysiology of the retina, managed by Professor José-Alain Sahel. A researcher passes a retina in a mass spectrometer in order to determine its molecular structure.

Yellow Crazy Ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) biologist studying ant under microscope, Christmas Island National Park, Christmas Island, Australia

Santa Catalina Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis catalinae) biologist, Julie King, doing blood work, Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California

Senior male researcher in a color lab

SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 19, 2022) Machinist Mate 2nd Class El Jean Root, from San Diego, prepare a fuel sample for sediment testing in the oil lab aboard Arleigh Bruke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76). Higgins is assigned to Task Force 71/Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navys largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th fleets principal surface force.

Monitor showing an intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (selective focus)

A set-up for experiments with light wave guide cables and lasers. A technician examines a fiber optic cable.

X-RAY MIRROR REPLICATION AND SHELL SEPARATION PROCESS: CHET SPEEGLE, JOHN HOOD, KEITH BOWEN, CARL WIDRIG, RATANA MEEKHAM, AMY MEEKHAM

$110615-N-OA833-004ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 15, 2011) Students participating in the annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program at the U.S. Naval Academy participate in the atomic fingerprinting workshop. The workshop teaches the students to make waves, diffract light and fingerprint atoms by color using spectroscopy.$

Scientist examining pea sample through laptop in laboratory

Civilian technician Andy Pike uses an Omega enlarger to print a black-and-white negative. Base: Redstone Arsenal State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

edson, alberta, canada, geologist looking into a microscope at samples on a rig site

110326-N-6320L-008ARABIAN GULF (March 26, 2011) Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class James Poole examines a circuit board in the micro miniature electronics repair shop aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

1990s FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENT LOOKING THROUGH MICROSCOPE IN SCIENCE LAB

Jess Bunchek, a pseudonaut and associate scientist at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepares the materials needed for a germination test of plant seeds inside the Space Station Processing Facility on Jan. 15, 2020. The test will verify that the seeds can successfully grow here on Earth before they are sent to the International Space Station for testing in a microgravity environment as part of the VEG-03 series of experiments. The experiments will launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on the companys 13th resupply services mission to the space station. Liftoff is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2020, at 5:39 p.m. EST from the agencys Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

STS-132 JAXA FISH SCALES & HYDROTROP EXPERIMENTS

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National Lab Day

Man using microscope, smiling to younger man

In the Space Life Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, student interns such as Emma Boehm, left, and Jessica Scotten are joining agency scientists, contributing in the area of plant growth research for food production in space. Boehm is pursuing a degree in ecology and evolution at the University of Minnesota. Scotten is majoring in microbiology at Oregon State University. The agency attracts its future workforce through the NASA Internship, Fellowships and Scholarships, or NIFS, Program.

Antenatal diagnosis : study of a karyotype with Down syndrome. Cytogenetics and reproductive biology unit, Limoges hospital, France.

Yvette Gillies with avian influenza bird swab vials at the Bird Lab, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage. This image taken between June 14 - June 20, 2006. Subjects: Work of the Service; Avian Influenza; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

COTS-2 Cold Storage Nanorack Experiment Packaging for Dragon Capsule take from SSPF to Pad 40

Fingerprints and palm prints of a suspicious person are recorded with a scanner, Germany, Europe

Biotechnology, fluorescence microscope, a special version of a light microscope that can visualise fluorescent labelled molecules within a cell, Centre for Medical Biotechnology of the University Duisburg-Essen, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, Europe

Jonathan Gleeson, Kennedy Space Center employee providing support for NASAs Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR) under the centers Laboratory Support Services and Operations contract, assembles the flight hardware of OSCAR. OSCAR is an Early Career Initiative project at the Florida spaceport that studies technology to convert trash and human waste into useful gasses such as methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. By processing small pieces of trash in a high-temperature reactor, OSCAR is advancing new and innovative technology for managing waste in space. OSCAR would reduce the amount of space needed for waste storage within a spacecraft, turn some waste into gasses that have energy storage and life support applications, and ensure waste is no longer biologically active. A prototype has been developed, and a team of Kennedy employees are in the process of constructing a new rig for suborbital flight testing.

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