Astronaut Nick Hague installs the European Materials Ageing experiment

iss072e363251 (Dec. 13, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague installs the European Materials Ageing experiment hardware inside the Nanoracks Bishop airlock. The external investigation will be robotically removed from Bishop, installed on the Bartolomeo research platform attached to the outside of the Columbus laboratory module, and expose a variety of materials to the vacuum of space for about a year.