Astronaut Shannon Walker to install NanoRacks on ISS

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker, who will go to the ISS on Expedition 24, has trained on - and will soon permanently install - the two NanoRacks Platforms that arrived by shuttle in April and May. They will be located it the Japanese module on the ISS.

Kentucky Space is currently working with customers needing to do low cost, repeatable microgravity research using small plug-and-play labs called "CubeLabs." Each NanoRacks Platform can host up to 16 individual labs.

In this photo, the crew of Soyuz TMA-19 poses in Red Square before heading back to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to make final preparations for the June 14 launch. Walker is standing third from the left.

NASA recently also posted an interview with her, in which she talks about her background and path to the astronaut corps, and the duties she will carry out aboard the space station during her six month stay.

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Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll