NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A series of meetings, conferences, and workshops in planning or previously held, including proposal preparation resources, to help potential users of the International Space Station (ISS) as a National Laboratory develops concepts and projects to fly on ISS.

Past Meetings

1st Annual International Space Station (ISS) Research and Development Conference: Results and Opportunities -- The Decade of Utilization, June 26-28, 2012, Denver, Colo.

› Link to Plenary Presentations
› Link to Review
› Link to Conference Information
› Link to AAS
› Link to CASIS

NASA ISS Research Academy and Pre-application Meeting, Aug. 3-5, 2010.

› Final Agenda -- CONTENT UPDATED Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, 4:25 p.m. CDT (PDF, 116 Kb)
› ISS Research Academy and Pre-application Meeting Attendance List -- CONTENT UPDATED Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, 4:20 p.m. CDT (PDF, 184 Kb)
› Link to ISS Research Academy and Pre-application Meeting Presentations (hardcopy and video versions) -- CONTENT UPDATED Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, 3:16 p.m. CST

NASA / National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pre-Application Meeting Agenda for the NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) of the Biomedical Research on the International Space Station Program (NIH BioMed-ISS) June 16, 2009, NASA/Johnson Space Center

› Agenda, Implementation Partners Presentation Order, and Telecon Info for the NIH BioMed-ISS Pre-Application Meeting -- CONTENT UPDATED Thursday, June 11, 11:00 a.m. CDT (PDF, 14 Kb)
› NIH BioMed-ISS Pre-Application Meeting Attendance List -- CONTENT UPDATED Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:00 a.m. CDT (PDF, 68 Kb)
› Link to Implementation Partner and NIH Presentations (hardcopy and video versions), Handouts -- CONTENT UPDATED Tuesday, Sept. 1, 10:00 a.m. CDT
› Hardware List Distributed at NIH BioMed-ISS Pre-Application Meeting -- CONTENT UPDATED Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:00 a.m. CDT (PDF, 61 Kb)

Biotechnology Utilization Planning for the International Space Station National Laboratory (Nov. 13-14, 2008)

› Conference Agenda (10 Kb)
› International Space Station National Lab Status (R. Jones) (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
› ISS National Laboratory and KSC Space Life Sciences Lab (C. Quincy) (PDF, 483 Kb)
› Space Florida: Space Life Sciences Laboratory & ISS (S. Kohler) (PDF, 1 Mb)
› Spaceflight Platforms Toward Innovations in Infectious Disease Control (C. Nickerson) (PDF, 3.5 Mb)
› ISS National Laboratory Pathfinder Mission: Progress in Vaccine Decelopment (J. Becker) (PDF, 703 Kb)
› University of Florida: Progress in Cell Line Development (W. Vendrame) (PDF, 961 Kb)
› Human Health Research in Space (J. McGowan) (PDF, 358 Kb)
› Biotechnology Utilization Planning for the ISS National Laboratory (J. Sutton) (PDF, 1.9 Mb)
› Space Telescience & Biotechnology Research Education (M. Wiskerchen) (PDF, 4 Mb)

Special Session on "The International Space Station -- A New National Laboratory" at the 45th Annual AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Jan. 11, 2007

› ISS Research Progress to Date (PDF, 1.4 Mb)
› Vision for Space Exploration, Jan. 8, 2007 (PDF, 1.1 Mb)
› NASA Utilization of the ISS (PDF, 1.4 Mb)
› NASA Human Research Plans (PDF, 118 Kb)
› ISS Post-Assembly Accommodations/Resources (PDF, 1.1 Mb)
› Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (PDF, 989 Kb)
› International Relationships (PDF, 780 Kb)
› National Laboratory Applications Development (PDF, 207 Kb)
› ISS National Laboratory Pathfinder: Mission Progress in Vaccine Development (PDF, 703 Kb)

Customer Service Helpline

The International Space Station Research Integration Office has both a phone and an email customer service helpline that Payload Developers and others interested in doing research can contact to get assistance. The phone is staffed during regular business hours, or messages may be issued after hours, and a representative will return the call on the next business day. Phone: 281-244-6187, email: jsc-iss-research-helpline@mail.nasa.gov.

If you have questions regarding NASA badging, security, or remote computer online access (e.g., to NASA internal websites, ISS Payloads documentation, etc.), please download and read this Access Processes for Payload Developers document. For further info or assistance with these issues, please contact Mr. Jim Cochrane at: 281-244-6385.

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