NASA Space Flight and Ground Biospecimen Sharing Announcement

NASA announces the availability of preserved biospecimens from past Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) missions and related ground studies. Examples of past missions with available biospecimens include, but are not limited to, STS-131, STS-133, and SpaceX-4 RR-1. Detailed information describing the available biospecimens can be found on the NASA Life Science Data Archive (LSDA) website, https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/.

Click here to see the available biospecimens. To view the RR-1 Biospecimens, choose the “RR1” mission under the “payloads” category and then click “go.”

Biospecimens can be requested by filling out and submitting the Data Request Form on the LSDA website. All requests must be submitted via the Data Request Form to be considered. The NASA Biospecimen Sharing Program (BSP) Committee will review requests for scientific investigational use and relevance to NASA Space Biology objectives and 2011 NRC Decadal Survey priority recommendations for biological sciences in space ). It is expected that requestors have their own funding to analyze the biospecimens.

For further information, contact the NASA LSDA Biospecimen Point of Contact: Alison French alison.j.french@nasa.gov