iss072e593606 (Feb. 4, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams monitors an Astrobee robotic free-flyer outfitted with tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads as it grapples a "capture cube." The toaster sized Astrobee, with the experimental grippers attached, demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and service satellites in low Earth orbit.
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iss072e593598 (Feb. 4, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams monitors an Astrobee robotic free-flyer outfitted with tentacle-like arms containing gecko-like adhesive pads preparing to grapple a "capture cube." The toaster sized Astrobee, with the experimental grippers attached, demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and service satellites in low Earth orbit.
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iss072e576545 (Jan. 30, 2025) --- NASA astronauts Don Pettit (foreground) and Nick Hague, both Expedition 72 flight engineers, are at the controls of the robotics workstation preparing to assist and monitor spacewalkers Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (not pictured). Williams and Wilmore worked outside the International Space Station during a five-hour and 26-minute spacewalk on Jan. 30, 2025, to remove radio communications hardware and swab external surfaces searching for potential microorganisms.
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iss072e576226 (Jan. 28, 2025) --- The Soyuz MS-26 crew ship that launched NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the orbital outpost's Rassvet module. At left, is the Pirs docking compartment where Soyuz crew ships and Progress cargo craft can also dock.
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iss072e575684 (Jan. 24, 2025) --- New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs along the Mississippi River and on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited above.
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