Expedition 27/28 Astronaut Flight Engineer Ron Garan conducts a fantastic onboard tour of your fully assembled International Space Station's laboratory modules, science and technology facilities, payload hardware, racks, equipment, capabilities, various multidisciplinary investigations, and more where all the crews operate their research experiments on Station. Microgravity research aboard the space station has been ongoing since March 2001.
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Take a stroll down memory lane, with an eye focused on the future. From the Mercury program to the International Space Station, from the space station to the moon, and from the moon to Mars, spacesuits have and will continue to have an important role in human space exploration.
Astronauts go on spacewalks to do important jobs outside their spacecraft.› Read Students K-4 article
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Working on the space station also means ensuring the maintenance and health of the orbiting platform.
Scientists from around the world are using the station for research and experiments.