Space Stations

Offworld Biology Laboratory

By Keith Cowing

Status Report

NASA

March 24, 2024

Filed under Immunity Assay, ISS, Jeanette Epps, NASA, space biology, space life science, space medicine, space station

Offworld Biology Laboratory — Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps prepares tubes to collect samples — NASA

International Space Station Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps prepares tubes to collect samples from the crew for the Immunity Assay investigation.

Immunity Assay looks at the impact of spaceflight on cellular immune functions in blood samples, tests that could only previously be conducted on Earth.

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Astrobiology, space biology, space medicine,

Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he/him) 🖖🏻

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