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Louis Stodieck remembers the first time he saw a space shuttle blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In April 1991, Stodieck, an aerospace engineer, was the associate director of BioServe Space Technologies, a research center at the

51³Ô¹ÏÍø leading effort with CU Anschutz, Mayo Clinic to use microgravity to grow stem cells. The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is leading a $3.3 million project to advance stem cell research in low Earth orbit. NASA has awarded the university’s BioServe Space Technologies a three-year grant to study...

The first 20 star-trekking mice to travel to the International Space Station, riding aboard a spacecraft built by Hawthorne-based Space X, have returned to their home lab at UCLA. But the mission isn’t over for the mice, plucked last week from their

A SpaceX rocket wasÌýslated to launch two 51³Ô¹ÏÍø-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida on Thursday, including oneÌýto look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity that

Several students are playing significant roles in the upcoming launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying two 51³Ô¹ÏÍø payloads – one designed to help researchers better understand and perhaps outsmart dangerous infections like MRSA, another to help