NASA Now: International Space Station Payloads

In this final NASA Now program of the 2011-2012 school year, Katie Presson of the Payload Operations Integration team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, discusses investigations being conducted on the ISS. She describes the detailed process of getting science investigations, or payloads, approved and ready for their journey to the ISS. Presson also discusses safety requirements and describes some unique experiments for education and how teachers and students can be involved.