December 23, 2024

Space Station Crew Members Kick-Start New Year With Advanced Science

From left, Commander Andreas Mogensen of ESA, Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA, and Flight Engineer Loral OHara of NASA. In the night, she donned the Actiwatch to monitor sleep-wake patterns throughout the night.Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral OHara, both from NASA, posture for a portrait inside the Destiny lab module. Credit: NASAMaintenance and Agricultural ExperimentsFlight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA cleaned up in the Harmony module in the morning, then set out to replenish the water supply in the distribution and recovery tanks of Plant Habitat-06– an examination that studies the physiological and genetic responses to defense activation in wild-type tomatoes.