The Milky Way appears beyond Earth’s horizon in this celestial photograph captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit using a camera with low light and long duration settings pointed out a […]
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Offworld Nucleic Acid Sequencing
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit displays Genes In Space-11 samples validating on-orbit Nucleic Acid Sequenced Based Amplification (NASBA).
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Astronaut Don Pettit At Work Doing Offworld Science
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit is pictured setting up one of his “Science of Opportunity” experiments aboard the International Space Station.
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Offworld Science: Studying The Main Component Of Our Water World In Microgravity
Astronaut Don Pettit: Science and Art, or Art and Science; related subjects where it really doesn’t matter which comes first. So I have access to a freezer kept at -95 […]
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Offworld Life Science Research: Tele-Luminescence Analysis System (TELLAS)
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit works inside the Kibo laboratory module checking out biology imaging hardware, the Tele-Luminescence Analysis System (TELLAS), that can detect space-caused inflammatory […]