# @iss on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-foMdHudQw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76362895-iss-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-10T15:19:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** International Space Station (@iss) — https://gondola.cc/iss

## Caption

The six NASA astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station have been busy researching ways to improve life for humans on and off the Earth. From growing plants in space for consumption, studying stem cells for potential cancer treatments, to understanding how exercising in weightlessness affects the muscles and bones, the astronauts have been providing scientists results and insights only possible in the microgravity environment. The three Roscosmos cosmonauts aboard the station also have been conducting numerous science investigations contributing to the vast array of knowledge gained from studying biology, physics, technology, and more in space.

pic 1) Tracy C. Dyson unpacks research gear that is part of the BioFabrication Facility, a research device that prints organ-like tissues in microgravity.

pic 2) Matthew Dominick performs maintenance on a unique scale that calculates body mass using a form of Newton’s Second Law of Motion, force equals mass times acceleration.

pic 3) Mike Barratt replaces fuel bottles and other research components inside the Combustion Integrated Rack.

pic 4) Jeanette Epps processes blood and saliva samples collected from crew members for later examination.

pic 5) Butch Wilmore investigates using fluid physics techniques to overcome the lack of gravity when watering plants grown in space.

pic 6) Suni Williams uses a HAM radio and talks to students from Indonesia about life in space.

pic 7) Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub prepare for the arrival of a Progress cargo craft.

pic 8) Alexander Grebenkin is pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

pic 9) The Expedition 71 and Crew Flight Test members pose together for a portrait aboard the space station.

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international, flight, test, cosmonaut, science, nasa, research, boeing, space, station, roscosmos, crew, cft, astronaut

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