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Caption: A technician swabs for microbes on a mockup of the interior of the International Space Station at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was done as part of a program to develop microbial sampling procedures for spaceflight.
Credit: Erin Mulholland and Lane Dellwo, NASA
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