Micro-10

past Mission

Type

Experiment

Launch

April 8, 2016

Location

International Space Station

Objective

Life science research

Micro-10 was a life science research mission to investigate the effects of spaceflight on the growth, gene expression and physiological responses of a microorganism.

Astronauts float inside the pressurized flight deck of the Shuttle

A 35-mm camera equipped with a "fish-eye" lens captured this view on Discovery's flight deck featuring Kathryn D. Sullivan (left) with a Hasselblad camera on the forward flight deck and Loren J. Shriver, pen in hand, amending flight data on the aft flight deck.

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