Space to Ground: Flight Test: June 14, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station.

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Welcome to space to ground, I'm shaneequa vereen. Following last week's monumental launch of a new spacecraft to the international space station. We got an exclusive peek inside "let's go forward into starliner where there was a little bit of action the other day. So I'm going to lead you down through the pma, pma-2 into starliner. " also this week, we’ll take a look at some groundbreaking delovepments in 3d printing.

"here we are! " on saturday, june 8th, nasa astronauts suni williams and butch wilmore gave space fans a tour of boeing’s starliner capsule, which is currently docked at the space station. "it looks probably a little cramp, and it's actually fairly roomy for just suni and myself, for just the two of us. Obviously you don't need a large cockpit, so its actually sized perfectly for us as far as for controlling the spacecraft. " for all of the latest news on activities aboard the space station, be sure to check out blogs.

nasa. gov/spacestation. And finally, a couple of milestones in 3d printing took place aboard the orbiting laboratory. The redwire cardiac bioprinting investigation has produced the first successfully 3d printed cardiac tissue on the international space station. The tissue was successfully returned to earth in april.

The research could advance technologies for producing organs and tissues in lieu of donated organs, for which there is a shortage. Microgravity allows for 3d printing with increased physical stability due to the reduction of the earth’s gravitational force. This type of 3d bioprinting technology has the potential to revolutionize medical treatments, biological researach, and even the food we eat. Recently, 3d printing of metal took place aboard the station’s columbus laboratory module. Esa’s metal 3d printer deposited a small s-curve of liquefied stainless steel in the first test demonstation of the project.

An operational version of this metal 3d printer could allow future astronauts to print needed parts in space. And for now, that’s space to ground. Thank you so much for watching.

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