WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Oct. 25, to focus on the following science investigations, expertise demonstrations, crew provides, and {hardware} sure for the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft on the corporate’s 18th business resupply mission for NASA.
Audio of the media name will stream dwell at:
NASA and Northrop Grumman are focusing on launch no sooner than 5:50 a.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 6. The Cygnus spacecraft, carried atop an Antares rocket, will launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission will carry scientific research, crew provides, and {hardware} to the area station to assist its Expedition 68 crew.
To take part within the name, media should RSVP not less than two hours prior to the beginning of the occasion to Kiana Raines at 202-358-1160 or [email protected]. The public can submit questions on social media utilizing #AskNASA.
Heidi Parris, affiliate program scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, will present an outline of the analysis and expertise launching aboard the Cygnus spacecraft.
Other teleconference individuals embody:
- Dr. William Olbricht, performing deputy division director for the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems Division, National Science Foundation, will present an outline of the inspiration’s sponsored payloads on the mission.
- Dr. Ingrid Tomac, professor on the University of California, San Diego, and principal investigator for the Catastrophic Post-Wildfire Mudflows experiment, will focus on utilizing this investigation to consider the roles of gravity and composition in mudflow formation.
- Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul, analysis professor on the University of Florida, Gainesville, and principal investigator for Plant Habitat-03, will focus on this experiment to assess whether or not diversifications in a single era of vegetation grown in area can switch to the following era.
- Dr. Andrea Fuso, affiliate professor on the Sapienza University of Rome and co-principal investigator for OVOSPACE, will focus on this investigation to look at the impact of microgravity on bovine cell cultures. This analysis might enhance fertility therapies on Earth and assist put together for future human settlement in area.
- Rich Boling, vice chairman of company development for In-Space Manufacturing and Operations at Redwire Space, focus on the BioFabrication Facility with new capabilities to additional human tissue printing analysis.
- Timothy Kudzanayi Kuhamba, senior programs engineer for the Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA), will focus on the BIRDS-5 Project, a constellation of CubeSats, together with the primary satellites developed by Uganda and Zimbabwe. Bonny Omara, senior engineer for science, expertise and innovation, Office of the President, additionally can be out there to communicate to the Ugandan satellite tv for pc.
Cargo resupply from U.S. corporations ensures a nationwide functionality to ship crucial science analysis to the area station, considerably rising the flexibility of NASA to conduct new investigations on the orbital outpost. Other U.S. authorities companies, personal business, and educational and analysis establishments also can conduct microgravity analysis by our partnership with the ISS National Laboratory.
Now in its third decade of operation, the microgravity laboratory advances scientific information in Earth, area, bodily, and organic sciences. Such analysis advantages individuals on Earth and lays the groundwork for future human exploration by the company’s Artemis missions, which is able to ship astronauts to the Moon to put together for Mars.
Learn extra in regards to the mission and comply with launch updates at:
https://www.nasa.gov/northropgrumman
SOURCE NASA
