TripleLux-B Experiment on ISS - Space Pod 04/08/15
Channel: TMRO Space News
Date: 2015-04-08

This week astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti performed the TripleLux-B Experiment on the International Space Station. What do all of those words mean? TMRO Science Correspondent Lisa Stojanovski explains.

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/361.html​

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