HOUSTON (NASA PR) Dozens of experiments are going on at any given time aboard the
International Space Station. Research conducted in 2020 is advancing our understanding in areas of study from Parkinson’s disease to combustion.
Space station research results published this year came from experiments performed and data collected during the past 20 years of continuous human habitation aboard the orbiting laboratory. Between October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, the station’s Program Research Office identified more than 300 scientific publications based on space station research.
Here are the highlights of what we learned this year about groundbreaking space station science:
Small-scale drug delivery
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti works with nanoparticle samples in the Kubik facility aboard the space station. (Credits: NASA)