NASA MEDIA TELECON ON SCIENCE ABOARD THE SPX-26 CARGO MISSION TO ISS, Nov 9, 2022, 1:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a media telecon on November 9, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations and science experiments that will be delivered to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX cargo mission, SpaceX CRS-26 or SpX-26. The Cargo Dragon launch is scheduled for November 18.

Audio of the media telecon will be livestreamed on NASA Live.

Participants are:

• Kirt Costello, NASA’s chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Research Office, who will provide an overview of the research and technology launching aboard the Dragon spacecrafts
• Gioia Massa, NASA’s space crop production scientist and principal investigator for the Veg-05 study
• Matt Mickle, Boeing’s developmental projects senior manager, who will discuss International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSA)
• Timothy Macaulay, CIPHER vestibular health study lead, an experiment which will use the newly launching Falcon Goggles tool
• Mayra Nelman-Gonzalez, immunologist in NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Immunology and Virology Laboratory and co-investigator for the Moon Microscope technology demonstration
• John A. Hogan, chief of the bioengineering branch at NASA’s Ames Research Center and principal investigator for the BioNutrients-2 experiment
• A representative for the Extrusion study sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory