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Luca Parmitano works with free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES.

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.

Astronaut Luca Parmitano closes the hatch in the vestibule between the International Space Station and the HTV-4.

Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg close the hatches between the Harmony node and the HTV-4.

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, works near a hatch in the Harmony node of the International Space…

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano reads over an HTV-4 procedures checklist.

Astronaut Karen Nyberg prepares to release the HTV-4.

In 2013, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility added a C-130 Hercules to its fleet of aircraft

The support gantry at Pad 0B of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., was…