Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The photograph was taken by Nikolai Budarin from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on July 4, 1995. During this mission astronauts answered questions from school students over amateur radio , and performed life science experiments aboard the SpaceLab . The SpaceLab experiments were designed to understand how the Russian Space program combats the effects on the human body of the long-durations in space.
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