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Space Station Stories

Short film · 5 min

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Videos produced at the Johnson Space Center, by NASA. The International Space Station is paving our way to Mars as the only microgravity laboratory in which long-duration investigations can take place. From understanding how the human body reacts to long-term spaceflight to testing critical systems for Mars missions, the space station is a crucial stepping stone to deep-space exploration. This unique scientific platform continues to enable researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work on innovative experiments that could not be done anywhere else. Although each space station partner has distinct agency goals for station research, each partner shares a unified goal to extend the resulting knowledge for the betterment of humanity. Space Station Stories takes you inside the technological marvel that is the International Space Station. Humanity’s home in low Earth orbit since 1998, the station continues to be a platform for new discoveries, preparing us for the journeys of tomorrow while benefiting the world of today. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend nearly twelve months conducting important human research studies that will provide new insights into how the human body adjusts to weightlessness, isolation, radiation and stress of long-duration spaceflight. This is just the next step in preparing humanity for the ultimate goal: the journey to Mars. Space Station Stories takes you inside the technological marvel that…

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NASA

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