A small Kentucky startup just installed an autonomous space laboratory at the International Space Station. The lab, which allows up to 21 individual experiments to run at once, can be used to look at the effects of Micro-gravity on things like cancer and biological functions–a field dubbed “exomedicine.”
Here’s Space Tango’s engineering team, prepping for TangoLab-1 installation on August 1, 2016.
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The Space Tango engineers prepare from their headquarters in Lexington, KY.
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Astronaut Jeff Williams installs TangoLab-1 on the International Space Station on August 1, 2016.
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The finished TangoLab-1 equipment, right before delivery to NASA.
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The TangoLab-1 facility, with backup.
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Twyman Clements, co-founder of Space Tango, prepares to speak with astronaut Jeff William before the TangoLab-1 installation on August 1, 2016.
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The first prototype of the TangoLab-1, developed a few years ago.
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An early prototype of TangoLab-1.
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Another photo of an early prototype of TangoLab-1.
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A photo taken by astronaut Jeff Williams after the installation on orbit on August 1, 2016.
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Hope Reese is a writer based in Louisville, Kentucky, currently living in Budapest. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Vox, Vice and other publications.
