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NASA Space Station Live: Expedition 44 Midterm Report

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
August 7, 2015
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NASA Space Station Live: Expedition 44 Midterm Report
Expedition 39 flight engineer Steve Swanson (wearing sunglasses) is photographed near the Veggie facility in ExPRESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station) Rack 3 (ER3) during Veg-01 experiment initialization. Credit: NASA.
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NASA Commentator Dan Huot talks with Jorge Sotomayor, the Expedition 44 lead increment scientist, about some of the highlights of recent science research on the International Space Station, including the upcoming first-ever crew consumption of lettuce grown on orbit in the Veggie compact greenhouse, mobility testing of the Robonaut robotic crew member, and the deployment of a flock of Earth-observing satellites.

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