SpaceX launches crew to International Space Station
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission conducts medical and plant research aboard the International Space Station to improve intravenous fluid systems, cardiovascular treatments, and food growth in microgravity.
NASA has signed an order with California-headquartered aerospace company Vast to send a team of four astronauts to the International Space Station.
Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which began in 1998. Also, see a time-lapsed flyaround of the orbital outpost captured by the Space Shuttle STS-119 mission.
Meir, a marine biologist and physiologist and daughter of an Iraqi-Israeli father and Swedish mother, served as a flight engineer on a 2019-2020 expedition to the space station and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.