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Photo: The test site for the exposure of bacteria to space on the outside of the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. The experiment tested between 2015 and 2018 how many years bacteria can survive in space. Photo: JAXA / NASA

Bacteria can survive a journey from Earth to Mars

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A Japanese experiment on the space station looked at how bacteria can survive in space conditions and transfer life from one planet to another.
The Cygnus payload spacecraft that carried the laboratory to the International Space Station (Photo: NASA).

An Israeli space laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station

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Astronaut Sunita Williams runs an Israeli experiment on the International Space Station. Photo by NASA

Learning in the sky - Israeli student experiments arrived at the space station

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source of food and oxygen. The radish seeds that germinated in space. Photo courtesy of NSL Satellites

From middle school - to outer space

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A white tower plus a glowing garden on the International Space Station - the light played the role of gravity. Photo: NASA, from the study by Paul and her colleagues

Grow glow-in-the-dark plants on the International Space Station

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The space shuttle Endeavor is docked at the space station as photographed from the Soyuz spacecraft that left the station. Photo: Paolo Nespoli, European Space Agency

"A startling action from a distance" inside the International Space Station

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NASA Deputy Administrator Laurie Graver and Bigelow Aerospace President and CEO Robert Bigelow stand next to the Inflatable Space Station Model (BEAM) during a news conference on January 16, 2013. BEAM is set to be launched to the station in 2015 for a two-year technology demonstration experiment. NASA photo "A/Bill Ingles

NASA will attach a private inflatable space station model to the International Space Station

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The team of students from the school in Meshgav, whose experiment will be carried out on the International Space Station

Three Israeli experiments are launched today to the space station in the Falcon spacecraft

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