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Astronaut Jessica Watkins works on the Surface Avatar laptop computer to study ways to command and control surface-bound robots from space.

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Browse and download from a collection of reference materials for educators and students to learn more about ongoing mission science and technology research aboard the space station.

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Students watch a video about NASA astronaut Joe Acaba during a STEM in 30 event, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

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NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Don Pettit, both Expedition 72 Flight Engineers, extract the NanoRacks External Platform from the Kibo laboratory...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works on hardware maintenance tasks inside the International Space Station's Kibo lab...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim installs experimental hydrogen sensors to test the advanced life support gear for longer...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers inserts a cryogenic storage unit, called a dewar, containing blood samples collected...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers talks on a ham radio with students from Lakeside Junior High School in Springdale, A...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain is pictured in the Destiny laboratory module wearing an experimental wearable dosimet...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers opens the hatch to the Kibo laboratory module's airlock aboard the International Spa...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit removes the small satellite orbital deployer from the Kibo laboratory module's airlock ...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague processes samples inside the Destiny laboratory module's Combustion Integrated Rack. Th...

NASA astronauts (from left) Butch Wilmore and Don Pettit, both Expedition 72 flight engineers, install the European Enhanced Exploration Exercise D...

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Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli services microbe samples

Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli services microbe samples for DNA sequencing aboard the International Space Station.

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