ISSRDC 2020 Online Series: Watch on Demand

Watch Day 1 Sessions

Day 1 was held on on August 27, 2020, with session topics including:

  • Welcome from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
  • Updates from NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
  • NASA Biological and Physical Sciences Program Update
  • Panel Session: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Commercialization
  • Panel Session: State of the ISS National Lab
  • ISS Program Office Updates
  • Panel session: Building the LEO Economy

Watch Day 2 Sessions

Day 2 was held on on September 17, 2020, with session topics including:

  • The R&D Continuum: How the ISS is Closing the Gap Toward Commercial Applications
  • Maximizing Spaceflight Biological Data with Omics Analytics: The NASA GeneLab Database
  • Investing in Space: Trends, Opportunities, and Risks
  • An Overview of the Cold Atom Lab in Orbit

Watch Day 3 Sessions

Day 3 was held on October 22, 2020, with session topics including:

  • Developing and Testing Materials for the Communication Hardware of the Future
  • Human Health on a Personal Level: Using Space to Address Disease (pre-recorded with live Q&A)
  • 20 Years of STEM Experiments on the ISS

Watch Technical Sessions

As a key piece of the 2020 ISS Research & Development Conference (ISSRDC), the American Astronautical Society (AAS) offered three days of technical sessions held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, September 22-24, 2020. These sessions covered a wide range of topics, including human health in space, technology development, Earth observation, the space economy, and much more. There are more than 80 presentations and posters, so there’s sure to be something for everyone.