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Heart Beats and Space Feats: ISS Astronauts’ Latest Challenge


Crew members aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for a spacewalk to perform radio hardware removal and microbial sampling. Concurrently, they are involved in significant maintenance tasks and cardiac research to study the effects of long-term weightlessness on the heart. The two

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