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ISS Research Program

NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program at the International Space Station (ISS) has conducted striking fundamental and applied research leading to improved space systems and new, advantageous products on Earth.

International Space Station Environments, Power and Research

NASA’s experiments in the various disciplines of physical science, reveal how physical systems respond to the near absence of gravity. They also reveal how other forces that on Earth are small compared to gravity, can dominate system behavior in space. The International Space Station (ISS) is an orbiting laboratory that provides an ideal facility to conduct long-duration experiments in the near absence of gravity and allows continuous and interactive research similar to Earth-based laboratories. This enables scientists to pursue innovations and discoveries not currently achievable by other means. NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program also benefits from collaborations with several of the ISS international partners—Europe, Russia, Japan, and Canada—and foreign governments with space programs, such as France, Germany and Italy. The scale of this research enterprise promises new possibilities in the physical sciences, some of which are already being realized both in the form of innovations for space exploration and in new ways to improve the quality of life on Earth.

 
Acceleration Measurements
Providing a quiescent microgravity, or low-gravity, environment for fundamental scientific research is one of the major goals of the International Space ...
GIPOC
Glenn Research Center ISS Payload Operations Center
Glenn’s ISS Payload Operations Center (GIPOC) Provided Around-the-Clock Operations Support for Space Experiments on the International Space Station NASA ...
International Space Station
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is playing a significant role in the development and safe operation of the International Space Station (ISS). Glenn’s ...
ISS Fluids & Combustion Facility
The Fluids and Combustion Facility (FCF) is a set of two International Space Station (ISS) research facilities designed to support physical and biological ...
Maintenance Work Area
The Maintenance Work Area (MWA) consists of three major components: MWA Work Surface Area (WSA), MWA Containment System, and MWA Utility Kit. Additionally, ...
Microgravity Research Flights
Microgravity research has been performed by NASA Glenn Research Center for more than 30 years. Both United States and international microgravity science ...
Microgravity Science Glovebox
The Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) is one of the major dedicated science facilities inside Destiny. It has a large front window and built-in gloves to ...
MISSE
The Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) project involves a series of spaceflight missions with experiments flown on the exterior of ...
EXPPCS
Past Experiments
This is a list of microgravity experiments conducted at Glenn Research Center in the past:
Related Experiments
This is a list of microgravity related experiments currently conducted at Glenn Research Center:
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Two-Phase Flow in a Microgravity Environment
The Fluid Physics branch of the Microgravity Science Division at NASA Glenn Center is conducting research on the effects of microgravity on two-phase flow. ...
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