Space Biology Program

NASA’s TechFlights 2023 Selections Advance Space Science in Collaboration with Industry A new robot will be taking flight soon to…

NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division is sending three physical sciences and space biology experiments and equipment to the International…

Science Objectives Biological Research in Canisters-25 (BRIC-25) studies the effect of low Earth orbit on the physiology, cell-to-cell communication, and…

Science Objectives Throughout the course of three shuttle missions, alterations in ovarian function were detected in female mice that could…

Science Objective The Experimental Evolution of Bacillus subtilis Populations in Space: Mutation, Selection and Population Dynamics (MVP Cell-02) investigation seeks to understand…

The understanding of how biological systems and processes are impacted by the lunar environment is extremely limited, with many key…

Use it or lose it: It’s a fact of life for muscles – for you and me, for an astronaut,…

NASA is preparing to send astronauts on journeys that will include longer stretches in microgravity – to the Moon and…