Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

You want to only use space when you really have to be up there.

And so there's a lot of mechanisms and things in biology you can do here.

We just want to get to space for the absence of convection, sustained lack of sedimentation for weeks or months at a time.

So you do a really long-scale experiment like tissue engineering that's going to be economically viable to do in space.

Yes, exactly.

You can always add back in the earth effects in zero GH.

Yes.

Right, right.

That, it's funny that you mention that.

That is what they did towards the end of the ISS.

We had ISS National Lab, ISSNL.

It did happen.

And that enabled my PhD, because as a student, I was able to get basically subsidized support to fly my little self-assembling prototypes via ISS National Lab.

Now I think we're 10, 15 years after that, now we are ready for commercial space.

And so what NASA is going to do to replace the International Space Station is truly commercial modules where these companies like Axiom are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in VC investment.

People out there really do believe they can make money off of not just biotech, but also ball bearings.

This would be their tube.

They're going to go back to a pressure cylinder.

We want our buckyball to be an appendage on the Axiom Space Station or the Voyager Star Lab or the VAST Space Station.

So we will be kind of next-gen habitat tech that gets tested out in the next five years on the attachment side of a more traditional space station that's going to replace the International Space Station.

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