What鈥檚 Happening On The International Space Station?

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What鈥檚 Happening On The International Space Station?

By Amanda Magnus,

Frank Stasio

Published August 29, 2019 at 12:03 PM EDT

Christina Koch is in between two astronauts in space suits.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch poses for a portrait with Andrew Morgan and Nick Hague in their U.S. spacesuits.

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Astronaut Christina Koch holds up a tube on the International Space Station.

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Expedition Flight Engineer Christina Koch conducts research operations for a protein crystal growth experiment on the International Space Station.

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Christina Koch holds complicated equipment on the ISS.

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Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Christina Koch conducts science operations for the BioFabrication Facility experiment on the ISS.

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A North Carolinian is slated to set a new record on the International Space Station.

Astronaut is in the midst of 328 day mission, which if completed, will be the longest single spaceflight by a woman.The ISS is a giant, multinational research facility that has been manned and in orbit continuously since November of 2000. It travels at a speed of five miles per second and orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

Host Frank Stasio talks about the research being conducted on the space station with , an astrophysicist and an assistant professor in the department of physics at North Carolina State University. Mack also talks about how the human understanding of the universe has evolved since the ISS was put into orbit.

She will be giving a keynote address 鈥溾€� this Friday, Aug. 30 in the State Ballroom on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh. The event will also feature a conversation with Christina Koch live streamed from space.

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Amanda Magnus

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other 瓜神app shows including Tested and CREEP.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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