Demo
    Engineers in a cleanroom inspect a satellite before launch, wearing protective clothing and headgear.
    The Cosmic-Ray Energetics and Mass, or CREAM, instrument — shown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in June — will be mounted on the ISS for three years measuring the charges of cosmic rays.
    Control panel of a machine with various colored buttons and a metallic lever.
    The MISSE-8, or Materials on International Space Station Experiment-8, was mounted on the space station’s exterior to test the effects of space on certain materials.
    A microscope slide with numerous yellowish-brown bacterial colonies viewed under a backlight, featuring visible textures and uneven distribution.
    Crystals grown in microgravity are often of a higher quality than those grown on Earth.