In another bid to safeguard astronauts on future deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has unveiled a $3.6 million Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for health and life sciences research (ISS AO 2026) aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The initiative will award up to $900,000 per project to Canadian researchers utilizing microgravity to study non-human...
While the CSA's initiative aims to safeguard astronauts on deep-space missions by funding research aboard the ISS, it also seeks to yield tangible healthcare benefits for Earth-based communities. The research will focus on using microgravity to study non-human biological models, with researchers partnering with commercial space station hardware providers. The CSA has outlined seven core categories of mission risk, including physiological adaptations to hypogravity, musculoskeletal and cardioresp...
