Samantha working on Airway Monitoring

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station working with equipment for the Airway Monitoring investigation.

With each lungful of air, our bodies absorb oxygen and exhale waste-product molecules such as carbon dioxide – and the important signalling molecule nitric oxide. The Airway Monitoring experiment looks at the amount of nitric oxide the astronauts expel in the airlock.

Connect with Samantha and the Futura mission at: samanthacristoforetti.esa.int

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