The crew of Expedition 72 aboard the International Space Station is beginning the New Year preparing for an upcoming spacewalk to service science hardware and install communications gear. The space station residents also conducted space agriculture and worked on cargo duties at the beginning of the week.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Don Pettit rounded out their day conducting science and transferring cargo, working in the Columbus laboratory module thinning Red Romaine lettuce seedlings to learn how to grow food crops on space missions. Wilmore transferred cargo in and out of the Cygnus cargo craft that has been berthed to the Unity module since Aug. 6, 2024.
This image shows a vivid aurora as it streams over the Earth as the space station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Australia and Antarctica.
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