SPOCS

Introduction

SPOCS is a NASA competition in which undergraduate students compete to design and build an experiment to fly aboard the International Space Station for 30 days. Payload designs are themed around bacterial resistance, a subject of great interest for both long-term spaceflight (like in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar mission) and short-term astronaut exposure to microgravity aboard the ISS. The SPOCS team is working on designing an autonomous payload to study the effects of the microgravity environment on the production of antibiotics with the eventual goal of sending the payload to space!