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NASA MEDIA TELECON RE UPCOMING SPACEX CRS-21 LAUNCH, Nov 20, 2020, virtual, 1:00 pm ET
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NASA will hold a media telecon on November 20, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET to discuss payloads that will be delivered to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX cargo resupply mission, CRS-21, or SpX-21. It is scheduled for launch on December 2.
Among many other things, it will deliver a new, commercially developed (by Nanoracks) airlock.
The media telecon will be audiocast on NASA Live.
Participants in the November 20 briefing are:
- David Brady, associate program scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, will provide an introduction to the research and technology aboard the Dragon spacecraft.
- Charles Cockell, professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh and principal investigator for the BioAsteroid experiment, and Rosa Santomartino, postdoctoral research associate. BioAsteroid aims to better understand how microbes interact with and change asteroids, information that could be used for future mining on asteroids.
- Joseph Wu, professor and director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and principal investigator, and Dilip Thomas, postdoctoral research fellow for Cardinal Heart, which studies the effects of microgravity on heart tissue using tissue chips, in an effort to develop therapies on Earth and countermeasures for future space exploration.
- Benjamin Easter, deputy element scientist for exploration medical capability in the NASA Human Research Program, who will discuss HemoCue, a commercial off-the-shelf device that will be tested as a tool to provide autonomous blood analysis as an important step toward meeting the heath care needs of crew members on future missions, including for NASA’s Artemis program to the Moon.
- Brock Howe, program manager for the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, the first privately funded module to be delivered to the space station. The Bishop Airlock will support science experiments, satellite deployment, and spacewalks.
- Dusan Sekulic, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky and principal investigator, and Sinisa Mesarovic, professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Washington State University, for SUBSA-BRAINS. This experiment looks at how liquid metals behave in microgravity as a first step toward developing techniques that could be used for construction of human space habitats, as well as to repair damage from micrometeoroids or space debris.
- Pinar Mesci, project scientist for Space Tango-Human Brain Organoids, an experiment that studies how microgravity affects small, living masses of cells as a way to understand the effects of spaceflight on the brain. This investigation could pave the way for additional exploration of changes to neurons during spaceflight, including studies of pharmacology, disease, aging, and more.