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The official Expedition 71 crew portrait with (bottom row from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin and NASA astronauts Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps. In the back row (from left) are, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko.

Expedition 71 Mission Summary

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The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

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International Space Station as seen at night during an approach of a visiting vehicle.

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female astronaut working with an experiment inside a microgravity science glovebox

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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti works with floating autonomous robots inside the space station.

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cover of the Reference Guide to the International Space Station Sept. 2015 with images of the station, astronauts and Earth in backdrop

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Station Transition Report

Detailing the goals for the next decade of station operations and the technical steps and budget required for transition.

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