\n NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara is pictured working with the Microgravity Science Glovebox, a contained environment crew members use to handle hazardous materials for various research investigations in space.
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<\/p>\n NASA<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara is pictured working with the Microgravity Science Glovebox, a contained environment crew members use to handle hazardous materials for various research investigations in space.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NASA<\/p>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Few humans have had the opportunity to see Earth from space. And for astronauts living in the International Space Station like Loral O’Hara, that view never gets old.<\/p>\n But there’s nothing like the first time. <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/p>\n “You know, you see it in photographs, but that doesn’t compare at all to seeing it in person for the first time in 3D,” O’Hara told NPR Short Wave<\/em> host Regina G. Barber in a recent interview. “I just saw the ocean and the clouds \u2014 this blue and white marble against the blackness of space \u2014 and it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.” <\/p>\n O’Hara is a flight engineer for NASA’s Expedition 70 crew, who launched into space in September 2023. She and her team spent the last six months researching a range of topics: How the human brain and body adapt to microgravity, 3D-printed human heart tissue and how space changes the immune systems of plants.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2024\/03\/22\/iss070e000392-resized-805bd60372677371ef3d159dcf5d9b31d12d9d4b-s1200.jpg\")
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