Videos: “Space to Ground” ISS report – Oct.11.2019

This week’s episode of NASA’s Space to Ground reports on activities related to the International Space Station:

** NASA Astronauts Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station on Oct. 6, 2019

** Living and Working: Valuable Spaceflight Data Collaboration Tool

The International Space Station is the largest human-made structure in low Earth orbit (LEO) and serves as a space environment research laboratory where astronauts perform experiments in several unique fields including physics, astronomy, and biology. NASA’s Genelab collects valuable spaceflight experiment data for researchers and scientists to learn from this unique environment. GeneLab is an interactive, open-access resource where scientists can upload, download, store, search, share, transfer, and analyze omics data from spaceflight and corresponding analogue experiments. The biological studies conducted on the International Space Station generate critical data that scientists use to determine how terrestrial biology changes as a result of spaceflight.

** Meet Former NASA Astronaut Kathy Sullivan: the First American Woman to Walk in Space

35 years ago, on October 11, 1984, NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. We video chatted with Kathy to ask her about this historic feat as well as her thoughts on the upcoming all-female spacewalk scheduled to take place October 21, 2019, with NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.

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