Cold Atom Lab Unloading on ISS

Astronaut Christina Koch unloads new hardware for the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station the week of Dec. 9, 2019.

The Cold Atom Laboratory launched to the space station on May 21, 2018, aboard a Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Designed and built at JPL, the Cold Atom Lab is sponsored by the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and The Biological & Physical Sciences (BPS) Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.