7 cool reasons to work on the international space station

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7 COOL REASONS TO WORK ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

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Page 1: 7 COOL REASONS TO WORK ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

7 COOL REASONS TO WORK ON THE

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

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Exploration of Medical Capability

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

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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

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COMBUSTION SCIENCE

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

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Materials Science

• Solidification in Metal and Alloys

• Crystal Growth• Electronic Materials• Glasses and

Cermanics

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Complex Fluids

• Colloidal Systems

• Liquid Crystals• Polymer Flows• Foams and

Granular Flows

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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

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NANORACKS: YOUR GATEWAY TO SPACE

We work with schools and commercial companies to send payloads into orbit on-board the ISS

Astronauts work on your experiments and send you the results

You are the new generation doing space research…how cool is that!?

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