{"id":713710,"date":"2022-01-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=713710"},"modified":"2022-01-17T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:00:00","slug":"space-science-in-360-cosmic-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=713710","title":{"rendered":"Space science in 360\u00b0 | Cosmic Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Space_science_in_360_Cosmic_Kiss_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:00:00<\/p>\n<p>Immerse yourself in 360\u00b0 of science with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer as he prepares an experiment to examine how human cells behave in weightlessness.<\/p>\n<p>The Cytoskeleton experiment is a biological study that aims to determine the changing function of RhoGTPases when in vitro cell cultures are exposed to weightlessness. It will run in the Biolab facility of Europe\u2019s Columbus laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we see Matthias remove Cytoskeleton cell cultures from the Minus Eighty Lab Freezer ISS (MELFI) and prepare them in the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) before installing the experiment in Columbus\u2019s BioLab.<\/p>\n<p>Matthias was launched to the International Space Station for his current Cosmic Kiss mission on 11 November 2021. In his approximately six months on board, he will support over 35 European experiments and many more international experiments in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Matthias and the science he will support on the ESA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Cosmic_kiss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cosmic Kiss<\/a> mission website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Sets\/Cosmic_Kiss_-_3601_videos\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Access the other <i>Cosmic Kiss<\/i>\u00a0<i>360\u00ba<\/i> videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/01\/Space_science_in_360_Cosmic_Kiss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space science in 360\u00b0 | Cosmic Kiss<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:00:00 Immerse yourself in 360\u00b0 of science with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer as he prepares an experiment to examine how human cells behave in weightlessness. The Cytoskeleton experiment is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":713711,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/713711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}