... as templates for subsequent analyses. The 16S rRNA genes of bacteria were amplified using the 27F and 1495R primers [ 21 ]. Abstract Dead-corner areas in space station that untouched by the clean-up campaign often experience microorganisms outbreaks, but the microbiome of these areas has never been studied...

...Scott Olenych neural stem cells oligodendrocytes microgravity time-lapse imaging International Space Station Figure 7: Proliferation of neural stem cells cultured post-exposure to zero gravity showing cell division (asterisk and arrowhead). It was extremely important to begin analysis...

... abundance of each Malassezia species was recalculated when the total proportion of all Malassezia species was set to 100%. Pre, Preflight; In-1, Inflight 1; In-2, Inflight 2; In-3, Inflight 3; In-4, Inflight 4; Post, Postflight. The International Space Station (ISS) is a huge manned...

...Ulrich Limper; Jens Tank; Tobias Ahnert; Marc Maegele; Oliver Grottke; Marc Hein; Jens Jordan Astronaut Human spaceflight Weightlessness Microgravity Thrombotic risk Commercial spaceflight Aging Touristic spaceflight Exploration mission Moon Mars International Space Station Faculty...

... the effects of radiation, although the majority of these studies were relatively short term. Within the Twin Study, two identical twins were examined over 5 months before flight, 1 year when one twin was on the International Space Station (ISS), and another eight months post-flight. This study is the first...

..., Austria. Tel: +43 316 385 72808 Graphical Abstract Figure. Some terrestrial microorganisms can colonise space habitats, such as the International Space Station, space vehicles or potentially even other solar system bodies...

...: [email protected] 2016 Abstract The International Space Station (ISS) is a huge manned construct located approximately 400 km above the earth and is inhabited by astronauts performing space experiments. Because the station is within a closed microgravity environment, the astronauts are subject...

...). * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Takashi Sugita, Department of Microbiology, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8588 Japan. Tel: +81-424-95-8762; E-mail: [email protected] 12 05 2015 21 01 2015 11 05 2015 Antarctica international space station...

... does not induce oxidative stress, and reduces antioxidant capacity in plants. barley International Space Station space radiation oxidative stress antioxidant activity Reference 1) Ferl R, Wheeler R, Levine HG, and Paul A-L, Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 5 , 258–263 (2002). 2) Kanazawa S...

... and ISS isolates. Overall, the observations of these two isolates differ from the responses of other species of bacteria isolated from water aboard the Mir space station, and contradict the general tendency for bacterial abundance to be higher under modelled reduced gravity ( Baker and Leff 2004...

... for the nation and the nation’s leaders provides a perspective that allows pursuits such as the Space Shuttle, Space Station Freedom, and the International Space Station to be understood as resulting from the same exchange mechanism that produced America’s desire to go to the Moon. Cold War Johnson Lyndon B...

...Chapter 5, “Space Station: Campaigning for a Permanent Human Presence in Space,” transitions from the space shuttle as the focus of U.S. human spaceflight to NASA’s push for a permanent space station from the 1980s into the new century. The space station became the new icon for justifying humans...

...Chapter 2 outlines the types of trips possible in the near future, namely suborbital flights; trips to earth-orbiting space stations; trips to the Moon, to nearby asteroids and comets, and trips to Mars and its moons. lift off phase suborbital flights weightlessness acceleration free fall gs...

... explosion on January 28, 1986 and the Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003. The final section focuses on the decision to build the International Space Station (ISS) in 1993. The shuttle program taught lessons through its failures, too: manned space exploration hinges first...

... and social relations in outer space. References Anderson, Clayton C.   2015 . “ The Secret Behind How the ISS Gets Cleaned. ” Quora , May 27, 2015. https://www.quora.com/International-Space-Station/How-is-the-interior-cleanliness-maintained-aboard-the-International-Space-Station...

... on the case of space stations, including in cislunar space. A central goal is to map the diverging alignments and to build an understanding of the role that material and perceptual threats play in bringing them about. First, the chapter unbundles the threats states face at the nexus of space activities...

...This chapter describes the important legacy in space technology of the defense work undertaken at JPL. NASA's neglect of technology development continued into the 1980s; what little technology NASA did support emphasized the shuttle and the space station, with a focus on the short term instead...

... Space Station. Kim Doo Hwan space programs Huntley Wade International Space Station ISS Kim Kyung Min nationalism South Korea ROK Gerschenkron Alexander Korea Aerospace Research Institute KARI rockets Veblen Thorstein World War II chaebol conglomerates Choi Young Hwan conglomerates Kim...

... the agency to outsource certain functions, such as cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS); the massive cost overruns in the Mars Science Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2008; and flattening of the NASA budget and ISS funding with the onset of the 2009 recession, causing...

...Beginning with a short review of space station concepts in the early days of spaceflight, this chapter goes on to describe plans by NASA and agency contractors to put dozens, even hundreds of people into orbit at one time. It discusses the competition—the Soviet and Russian successes with Salyut...