Public-Private Collaboration will Study Space-Flown Reference Materials

Office of Space Commerce and NIST Partner with Rhodium Scientific

When the NASA Commercial Resupply Services-33 flight lifted off on August 25, it carried a wide array of reference materials – things like samples of cholesterol, uric acid, creatinine, tripalmitin, and organic contaminants in house dust – which were developed by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and tran…