7 cool reasons to work on the international space station

7 COOL REASONS TO WORK ON THE

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Exploration of Medical Capability• Advanced diagnostics devices and remote conjunction protocols• Cancer Research Treatments• Spinal Fluid in Brain-eye

The Cosmic Ray Detector Discovered Dark Matter

• It’s 23% of the universe• Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) used for discovery• Separate Shuttle Mission was Needed to Take AMS to

ISS

COMBUSTION SCIENCE

• Spacecraft fire safety• Solids, Liquids, and Gases• Super Critical Reacting Fluids• Soot Formation

Materials Science

• Solidification in Metal and Alloys

• Crystal Growth• Electronic Materials• Glasses and

Cermanics

Complex Fluids• Colloidal

Systems• Liquid Crystals• Polymer Flows• Foams and

Granular Flows

Atomic Clocks in Space• Stability of one part in a

hundred million million

• Determine the effect of gravitation on time by comparing a rocket-borne clock to one on Earth

• Test our understanding of relativity

NANORACKS: YOUR GATEWAY TO SPACEWe work with schools and commercial companies to send

payloads into orbit on-board the ISSAstronauts work on your experiments and send you the resultsYou are the new generation doing space research…how cool is

that!?

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