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Scientists at the Space Life Sciences Lab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are researching ways to improve...
This chart describes the Skylab student experiment Bacteria and Spores, proposed by Robert L. Staehle of Rochester,...
Pictures 1 and 2 show samples of Bacillus Subtillus grown during the first performance of Robert Staehle's...
Lisa Crawford, a graduate research assistant from the University of Toledo, works with Laurel Karr of Marshall Space...
ISS030-E-060469 (4 Feb. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, cleans cabin air bacteria...
iss073e0027808 (May 10, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works in the Kibo...
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a natural bacteria found all over the Earth, has a fairly novel way of getting rid of...
iss057e132633 (12/13/2018) --- A photo of the Study of the Gravity’s Effect on Bacteria (ICE Cubes Hydra-2 Bacteria...
Robert L. Staehle (center), high school student from Harley School, Rochester New York, talks with Steven Hall...
iss073e0025978 (May 9, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers works in the Kibo...
iss073e0027806 (May 10, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works in the Kibo...
jsc2021e064552 (12/14/2021) --- Preflight image of the apparatus for the Determining the Efficacy of Bacteria...
jsc2021e064551 (12/14/2021) --- Kaitlyn Harvey presents a 3D printed stand used to load and seal the bacteria...
This electron microscope image shows extremely tiny tubular structures that are possible microscopic fossils of...
Celloulose Digesting bacteria
Data shows that elevated sialidase in bacterial vaginosis patients correlates to premature births in women....
jsc2021e064550 (12/14/2021) --- Ashley Keeley tests the long-term performance of the adhesive binding the aluminum...
jsc2021e064549 (12/14/2021) --- Hannah Johnson solders the electrical circuitry that runs the Determining the...
In the center of this electron microscope image of a small chip from a meteorite are several tiny structures that...
NASA researchers are flying over Alaska and Canada, studying the effects of a greening Arctic. Permafrost, the...
iss071e041625 (April 24, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps extracts DNA...
jsc2024e067093 (1/19/2024) --- Ohio University’s Mission 18 Team (Michael Lane, Victoria Swiler and Nathan Smith)...
iss060e036686 (8/19/2019) --- A view during removal of card/cube from TangoLab-2 Facility. The Effects of...
iss066e102637 (Jan. 3, 2022) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Raja Chari sequences DNA from...