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NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. Cardman was repairing a computer hard drive inside the Multi-use Variable-g Platform-02—a research device that can generate artificial gravity to study how microbes, plants, cells, protein crystals, and more might grow in different gravity environments including the Moon and Mars.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman works inside the Kibo laboratory module

iss073e0982912 (Oct. 28, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. Cardman was repairing a computer hard drive inside the Multi-use Variable-g Platform-02—a research device that can generate artificial gravity to study how microbes, plants, cells, protein crystals, and more might grow in different gravity environments including the Moon and Mars.

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TakenOctober 28, 2025

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