Jessica & Samantha Visit BEAM | International Space Station

Jessica & Samantha Visit BEAM | International Space Station

Expedition 67 Flight Engineers (from left) Jessica Watkins of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) are pictured inside the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) during cargo stowage activities aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is pictured inside the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) swapping batteries inside its sensor systems.

Expedition 67 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins poses with the hatch cover belonging to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station's Tranquility module.

BEAM, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, was pictured installed to the Tranquility module of the International Space Station with an external high definition camera. Image Date: April 16, 2017

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is an expandable habitat technology demonstration for the International Space Station. Expandable habitats greatly decrease the amount of transport volume for future space missions. These “expandables” require minimal payload volume on a rocket, but expand after being deployed in space to potentially provide a comfortable area for astronauts to live and work. They also provide a varying degree of protection from solar and cosmic radiation, space debris, atomic oxygen, ultraviolet radiation and other elements of the space environment. 

Jessica Watkins' Biography (NASA)

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/jessica-watkins/biography

Samantha Cristoforetti's Biography (ESA)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Samantha_Cristoforetti

Learn about Samantha's Minerva Mission: 

https://bit.ly/MissionMinerva

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Crew Image Capture Date: June 10, 2022

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