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SpaceX 2 Payload

Engineers load experiments requiring low temperatures into the GLACIER

In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers load experiments requiring low temperatures into the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic International ...

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Ride's Flight Paved Inspirational Path for Burnett

Josephine Burnett, director of International Space Station Ground Processing and Research

Josephine Burnett grew up devoted to the idea of a career with the space program. Today, she is director of ISS Ground Processing and Research at Kennedy.

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Experiment Helping Study Plant Growth in Space

A Biological Research in Canisters experiment package with five Petri dish fixation units (PDFU) installed. The PDFUs each contain a Petri dish with the biological sample to be flown in space. (NASA)

Researchers to grow knowledge of plants in microgravity environments with BRIC-17 investigations launching with SpaceX Dragon.

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Second SpaceX Space Station Resupply Flight Ready to Go

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with its newly attached solar array fairings

Dragon set to deliver supplies and experiments to the orbiting laboratory.

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Kennedy Team Continues Space Station Support

Workers prepare the payload container for shipment.

Processing teams at Kennedy are still working to keep the station's hardware fit.

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Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat

Some of the research on the International Space Station is already focusing on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflights beyond low-Earth orbit. During Expedition 29 in 2011, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov checks the progress of new growth in the Rastenia investigation aboard the space station. (NASA)

NASA's Kennedy Space Center uses in-house expertise to develop an International Space Station Plant Habitat for microgravity plant growth studies.

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