Houston We Have a Podcast Science in Space
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Mar 6, 2026 Dr. Lisa Carnell, Division Director for NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences and biomedical engineer with patents, explains research in microgravity, the Moon, and Mars. She covers why space enables unique biology and physics studies. Topics include precision health and organ-chip experiments, space crops and plant stress, quantum research in microgravity, and expanding science platforms from LEO to deep space.
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BPS Bridges Biology And Physics
- BPS covers biology from microbes to 3D human tissue models and physical science from combustion to quantum experiments like the Cold Atom Laboratory.
- Combining both portfolios enables cross-disciplinary studies unavailable on Earth, such as ultra-cold atom physics and tissue models in microgravity.
Space Research Enables Exploration And Earth Benefits
- Research in space is done because some experiments are impossible on Earth and because we must learn to live and thrive in deep space environments.
- Space science yields Earth benefits and directly informs countermeasures for human exploration to the Moon and Mars.
Five Focus Areas From The Decadal Survey
- BPS set five goals from the 2023 decadal survey: precision health, space crops, quantum leaps, foundations, and space labs.
- Space labs expands science beyond LEO to the Moon, Mars, deep space, suborbital and parabolic platforms.