NASA BFG ON SCIENCE PAYLOAD ON OA-9 CARGO LAUNCH TO ISS, May 10, 2018, virtual, 1:00 pm ET (audiocast)

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1:00 pm ET on May 10, 2018 to preview the science investigations and technology demonstrations that will be taken to the International Space Station on the next Orbital ATK launch, OA-9.  The launch itself is scheduled for May 20.

Audio of the teleconference will be webcast on the NASA Live website.  Participants are:

• Sarah Wallace, microbiologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and principal investigator for Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology (BEST), an investigation to identify unknown microbial organisms on the space station and understand how humans, plants and microbes adapt to living on the station
• Robert Shotwell, chief engineer for Astronomy and Physics Directorate, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, and manager for the Cold Atom Laboratory, a physics research facility used by scientists to explore how atoms interact when they have almost no motion due to extreme cold temperatures
• Andrea Adamo, founder and CEO for Zaiput Flow Technologies, who will discuss plans to validate a unique liquid separation system that relies on surface forces, rather than gravity, to extract one liquid from another
• Brandon Briggs, assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, who will discuss a payload that will evaluate the biological production of the biofuel isobutene using engineered E.coli under microgravity conditions
• A representative from Space Applications Services for the Ice Cubes Facility, the first commercial European opportunity to conduct research in space, made possible through an agreement with ESA (European Space Agency)