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ISS: A Home in Microgravity
Presents

Biology in Microgravity


John Rau Tom Dreschel

 

In the month of October Kennedy Space Center will hosting their second webcast of the season entitled: Biology in Microgravity which is a study of how people, animals, plants and other organisms are affected by the space environment. Hosting the event will be your NASA/Quest Correspondent John Rau at Kennedy Space Center. Our guest for this month's broadcast will be Tom Dreschel, a Research Scientist for KSC. This will be your chance to ask questions on how studying people and other living organisms in space benefits us here on Earth. So come and join the fun and participate in a very unique and informative event!

Several events will take place leading up to the webcast -See the schedule below.

 

Schedule of events


Lesson Guide

The Lesson Guide is designed to assist you in understanding the topics of discussion for the webcast. Please review this information PRIOR to the webcast so that you will be prepared to ask your questions!

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Check Your Knowledge
On October 11th


How are living organisms affected while
in space.



Webcast - October 18th
at 10 am PST

John Rau will host the October 20th Webcast from Kennedy Space Center at 10 am PST. He will be interviewing our featured expert Tom Dreschel. Tom is
looking forward to answering your questions on this exciting topic.

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Note: If appropriate we will extend the webcast for university questions!


Space Biology Links

For experiments you can do in your classroom go to the links bellow for detailed instructions.

Hydroponic production unit
Clinostat

The websites bellow are a good source of information for researching biology in space

Space Biology
Life into Space
Human Physiology
Space Bio
Fundamental Biology
Advanced Life Support


Chat-October 26th
at 10 am PST

Do you have questions about how the study of living organisms while in space will some day give us the ability for long-duration space flight? Our expert Tom Dreschel will be happy to explain why space biology research will benefit people on Earth.

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