<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div><div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div id="attachment_3414" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 910px;"><div><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714;"><div id="attachment_3426" class="alignnone wp-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 910px;"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/LYsYuJ" style="color: rgb(159, 159, 159); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 2; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" class="">Astronaut Kate Rubins wears a hand-painted spacesuit decorated by patients recovering at the MD Anderson Cancer Center to raise awareness about the benefits of pairing art with medicine.</font></p></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><font color="#444444" class="">The Expedition 49 crew is helping the pharmaceutical industry improve drug design while also helping researchers understand the properties of materials burning at high temperatures. The International Space Station‘s microgravity environment helps reveal new characteristics of physical and organic processes cloaked by Earth’s gravity. Scientists, doctors and engineers use these observations to design products and procedures to benefit humans living on Earth and in space. The new </font><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2275.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Eli Lilly-Hard to Wet Surfaces</font></a><font color="#444444" class=""> experiment is researching how different materials dissolve in water. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins set up a camera to automatically photograph the process today using six samples. Results could benefit how pills are designed improving drug delivery inside the body. Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi swapped samples for the </font><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1077.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Group Combustion</font></a><font color="#444444" class=""> experiment inside the </font><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1752.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Electrostatic Levitation Furnace</font></a><font color="#444444" class="">. The furnace is a device that observes and measures the thermophysical properties of materials heated to high temperatures using lasers. Onishi is also closing out the </font><font color="#0433ff" class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1992.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class="">Mouse Epigenetics</a> </font><font color="#444444" class="">study and cleaning up the </font><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/342.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Cell Biology Experiment Facility</font></a><font color="#444444" class="">. The life science facility contains an incubator with an artificial gravity generator. Commander Anatoly Ivanishin continued checking out Russian laptop computers and life support systems today. The veteran cosmonaut also transferred gear from a cargo ship and wrapped up a 24-hour data recording session for the </font><a href="http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/human/12.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Cosmocard</font></a><font color="#444444" class=""> blood circulation study.</font></font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><header class="entry-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.714285714rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.714285714rem; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next Station Crew Launch Postponed</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714;"><div id="attachment_3414" class="alignnone wp-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 910px;"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MawK9n" style="color: rgb(159, 159, 159); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none;" class=""></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>