Human spaceflight is entering a new era. The assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) will be completed in 2010.2 Supported by a full six-person crew for the first time, it is ready to put its full capabilities to work. While the ISS partners can be proud of having completed one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever conceived, the world at large also will judge the ISS by what is achieved in the utilization phase. In short, the full success of the ISS Program depends on the utilization achievements in the coming years. The people of countries participating in the ISS will...

This report summarizes research accomplishments on the International Space Station (ISS) through the first 15 Expeditions. When research programs for early Expeditions were established, five administrative organizations were executing research on ISS: bioastronautics research, fundamental space biology, physical science, space product development, and space flight. The Vision for Space Exploration led to changes in NASA's administrative structures, so we have grouped experiments topically by scientific themes-human research for exploration, physical and biological sciences, technology...