After disassembly – EXPOSE-R on board the space station

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After disassembly – EXPOSE-R on board the space station

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After the EXPOSE-R test facility was dismantled and removed from the outside wall of the ISS on 21 January 2011, astronaut Dmitri Kondratyev opened up the unit and removed the samples. These returned to Earth on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Credit: NASA

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