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They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb The original author is the Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos. Mr. Christianopoulos has endured many instances where his work has been diminished or overlooked. For this is where my story begins, I was born as a creation of three scientists. I was brought […]

Human nature has a built-in curiosity leading to voyages across the sea, flying into space, and for some scientists, in search of a cure for ailments.  This story unfolds with the history of an over-the-counter medication that may be in your medicine cabinet. The discovery of acetylsalicylic acid, also known as ASA, began during the […]

By: Jonna Ocampo,  Principal Investigator, CD-SEAS Mission Microgravity Pharmaceutical antimicrobial effectiveness is paramount when subject to extreme environments such as weightlessness. This weightlessness in space is known as microgravity and can be similar to the act of hovering in scuba diving. The significance of testing, synthesis, and purification of antimicrobial samples in orbit utilizing the International Space Station […]

DALLAS, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, has announced a list of 10 experiments selected for its first research mission on the XCOR Aerospace Lynx spacecraft. The experiments will be carried aboard the Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, an open-source payload carrier developed for the Lynx spacecraft […]

  Suborbital Human Research Test Subject Centrifuge Training National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR) 12/2015 and 02/2016