A new "electric gauze" is being developed by NASA to more quickly close wounds and speed up the healing process. This could come in handy not only on Earth or the International Space Station, but future crewed missions to Mars.
This material, called Polyvinylidene Fluoride or PVDF, is electroactive, meaning if any energy is applied to it – warming it up, pushing on it, or even breathing on it – it will generate a voltage.
Read MoreWhat did the romaine lettuce astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren ate in 2015 taste like? Arugula, according to Kelly. Apparently plants and foods can taste different in space than they do on Earth.
In an interview in April 2016, Gioia Massa, the NASA project scientist for Veggie, an experiment aboard the International Space Station designed to understand how to grow food in space, said she wasn't surprised by Kelly's description.
Read MoreWith the installation of a high definition camera during the U.S. spacewalk earlier this month, the exterior of the International Space Station can now show images and video in high resolution.
That includes the docking or berthing of visiting vehicles such as Progress, Soyuz, HTV, Cygnus or Dragon. But it can also mean really neat, clear pictures of the structure of the orbiting outpost
Read MoreAfter discovering a short circuit during pre-launch tests, Soyuz MS-02 was delayed from its Sept. 23 liftoff date. It has since been scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 1, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
As such, other Russian flights to and from the International Space Station will have to be moved around to accommodate this slip.
Read MoreNASA uploaded a pretty neat video about understanding gut bacteria. The video starts by stating there are 3 pounds of bacteria in the human gut. Wow! Dr. Fred Turek of Northwestern Universities Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology is studying that bacteria in astronauts on the International Space Station.
When Scott Kelly went to live in the orbital complex for a whole year, one of areas scientists were studying was the bacteria inside Kelly's gut and how they changed (or didn't) over the yearlong stay in microgravity.
Read MoreThe next crewed flight to the International Space Station, Soyuz MS-02, has been postponed “for technical reasons after tests at the Baikonur Space Center,” according to the Roscosmos State Corporation.
The flight was scheduled for a Sept. 23 launch and subsequent two-day rendezvous with the orbital outpost.
Read MoreIn addition to blog posts and original content about the various vehicles that visit the International Space Station, throughout the next few months, Orbital Velocity will be creating small 1- to 5-minute long videos about various topics – called Space Bytes.
In this case, the Russian Soyuz crew capsule is discussed. The video can be found on this blog post, our YouTube channel, as well as the Soyuz page in the menu at the top of the page.
Read MoreBlasting out of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Sept. 15 in China's Gansu Province, the country's second space station, Tiangong 2, was placed into a low-Earth orbit.
While this isn't an International Space Station related blog post, this moment is important in the overall history of space stations. When Shenzhou 11 – China's crewed spacecraft – launches sometime next month, it will dock to the new outpost making Tiangong 2 the 11th occupied orbital laboratory in history.
Read MoreAfter orbiting Earth for 172 days, three members the International Space Station’s Expedition 48 crew undocked their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the outpost and barreled through the atmosphere a couple hours later to land on the Steppe of Kazakhstan.
The official landing time was 09:13 EDT Sept. 6 (01:13 GMT Sept. 7) southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Russian search and recovery teams circling the area in helicopters then landed near the capsule to help NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Aleksey Ovchinin out of the Soyuz after their nearly six-month stay in at the orbiting laboratory.
Read MoreOrbital Velocity is designed to be "living time capsule" about the International Space Station.
This project is an attempt to bridge an information gap between space agencies and companies, as well as a public that supports space endeavors with their tax dollars. Despite the importance of the space station, the general public doesn't always know what is happening aboard this amazing complex on a regular basis. Research being conducted isn't always readily available and what information is out there can sometimes be difficult to understand. Some people aren't even aware there is an active space program, let alone a space station.
Orbital Velocity hopes to change that by building a database of information through blogs, a website, small videos and longer documentary-like series'.
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