Dispatches from BIO 2016
Returning to Earth
(A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off April 8, 2016, carrying a Dragon spacecraft to begin the CRS-8 mission delivering experiments to the ISS. Image credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Mike Kerley)
To date, approximately 95 countries have flown research on the space station.
During the panel at BIO International, Kirt Costello, Deputy Chief Scientist, ISS at NASA, called the station the “largest peaceful collaboration that we’ve manifested on our planet.”
“To return those benefits to the people of the world … is a critical benefit.”