INSIGHT: July 2024 | APPEL Knowledge Services

The Soyuz MS-24 crew ship is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module. NASA is making plans to deorbit the ISS into a remote ocean location sometime after 2030. Credit: NASA

NASA Selects Deorbit Vehicle for the ISS

July 29, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Powerful new spacecraft under development will guide the venerable station through Earth’s atmosphere to a remote ocean site, sometime after 2030.

Researchers have discovered that growing crystals aboard the International Space Station allows for slower growth and higher quality crystals. This high-quality crystallization enables them to identify the structures of disease-causing proteins and to develop new medications and treatments. Credit: JAXA

NASA Highlights Breakthrough Cancer Research Aboard ISS

July 26, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Unique properties of microgravity lead to more effective drugs.

Apollo 11 CapCom Charles M. Duke, Jr., left, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., center, and Fred W. Haise, Jr. during the first human lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Photo Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: CapCom for Apollo 11

July 9, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Duke talks Armstrong and Aldrin through communications issues, alarms, and a dwindling fuel supply to help them reach the lunar surface.