NASA astronaut Zena Cardman works inside the Kibo laboratory module

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iss073e0982912 (Oct. 28, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. Cardman was repairing a computer hard drive inside the Multi-use Variable-g Platform-02—a research device that can generate artificial gravity to study how microbes, plants, cells, protein crystals, and more might grow in different gravity environments including the Moon and Mars.

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