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The Gut Microbiome and Genes Can Alter in Space

The Gut Microbiome and Genes Can Alter in Space

SPACE The overall health of astronauts is affected by alterations in the gut microbiome due to space's harsh conditions. Genes can also be altered, such as changes in bone structure and in the immune system.
SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 Undocks from the International Space Station

SpaceX Crew Dragon Undocks From the ISS

The SpaceX Crew Dragon, crewed by two NASA astronauts bound home to Earth, has already undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), Saturday, August 1.

Virgin Galactic Signs With NASA for Private Space Missions Program

Virgin Galactic and NASA share the same visions for space exploration: for private companies to be involved in sending more people to space. They will be developing a new program that will allow customers to visit the International Space Station for private explorations and scientific research.
Jessica Meir and Christina Koch

Christina Koch, Jessica Meir Accomplished the Third All-Female Spacewalk

Koch and Meir performed a third successful spacewalk to repair old batteries on the ISS. Early this week, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir once again made history as they accomplished their third spacewalk to replace the aging batteries at the International Space Station.
Coffee in space?

SpaceX 2020 Mission: Send Coffee to ISS

Experiments like this create a path to understanding how plants will adapt to extreme environments like the zero-gravity setting of the International Space Station and enable agribusinesses like Front Range Biosciences to breed crops that can withstand harsh environments and can adapt to climate change.
Off to Conquer Space

Astronaut Snoopy Rides Aboard the International Space Station

Astronaut Snoopy has been NASA's mascot since 1968, a product of a 51-year partnership between the Space Agency and Peanut, first to promote safety in human spaceflight and in recent years, to use the famous cartoon beagle to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and encourage children to be interested in those fields.

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