--- title: Five Best Ideas: No One Knows What To Do With the ISS description: No one knows what to do with the International Space Station, a brain scan might help patients with depression and more. canonical: https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T21:30:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:58.443Z article:section: Ideas og:title: No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 28, 2017 9:30 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 28, 2017 9:30 PM UTC **1\.** [**No one knows what to do with the International Space Station.**](http://www.popsci.com/future-of-the-international-space-station) By Sara Chodosh in _Popular Science_ **2\.** [**A brain scan might help doctors choose between medicine or therapy for patients with depression.**](http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/03/mayberg%5Fdunlop%5Fpredict%5Fstudy/index.html) By _Emory University_ **3\.** [**Education is changing. It’s time that testing changed too.**](https://ssir.org/articles/entry/education%5Fis%5Fchangingits%5Ftime%5Fassessment%5Fcaught%5Fup) By Esther Care and Alvin Vista in _Stanford Social Innovation Review_ **4\.** [**Here’s an easy way to give your kids a head start against diabetes and heart disease.**](http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2017/A%5FLittle%5FVigorous%5FExercise%5FMay%5FHelp%5FBoost%5FKids%5FCardiometabolic%5FHealth.htm) By Marguerite Beck at _Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center_ **5\.** [**These six elements unlock innovation in almost any organization.**](https://www.fastcodesign.com/3069069/ideo-studied-innovation-in-100-companies-heres-what-it-found) By Katherine Schwab in _Fast Company_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/"},"headline":"No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station","datePublished":"2017-03-28T21:30:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:58.443Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Depression","Innovation","Education","diabetes","international space station"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4714945/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-the-international-space-station/","name":"No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station"}}]}] ```