Introduction

Problem Statement:

NASA wants to send up Nanolab experiments to the ISS but they don’t have enough experience designing labs. These Nanolabs are based on Agriculture, Fungus growth, Fermentation, and Crystal Growth which will provide data that the researchers will have to collect and interpret. NASA started studying biology and biotechnology in microgravity in order to compare it to the growth on Earth and its dangers on the ISS. Since September of 2000, NASA has conducted approximately 3000 experiments on the ISS. These experiments are majority manually operated in which the astronauts have to analyze the experiment themselves. Some of the experiments use a graphical user interface, however, with Nanolabs, the experiments will be autonomous and need a main controller. A friendly user interface is needed in order for the researchers to interact with the NASA experiments and collect their data.