{"id":255785,"date":"2025-07-24T02:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a5b3b407ec2d480114db9ccf288128c3"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:03:59","slug":"nasa-astronaut-jonny-kim-axiom-mission-4-commander-peggy-whitson-conduct-research-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=255785","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson Conduct Research in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"An Asian man and a white woman float inside the International Space Station&#039;s Destiny laboratory module. They are both wearing blue shirts and both are looking at the camera. The laboratory module has a lot of exposed cables and parts visible. There are even laptop computers floating nearby.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/iss073e0252485orig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)\/Takuya Onishi<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this photo from June 28, 2025, Expedition 73 flight engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/jonny-kim\/\">Jonny Kim<\/a> and former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axiomspace.com\/astronaut\/peggy-whitson\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peggy Whitson<\/a> work together inside the International Space Station&#8217;s Destiny laboratory module setting up hardware for cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>The hardware is used to culture patient-derived cancer cells, model their growth in microgravity, and test a state-of-the-art fluorescence microscope. Results of this study may lead to earlier cancer detection methods, development of advanced cancer treatments, and promote future stem cell research in space.<\/p>\n<p>Whitson returned to Earth on July 15, 2025, with fellow Axiom Mission 4 crew members ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski of Poland, and Hungarian to Orbit (HUNOR) astronaut Tibor Kapu of Hungary. They completed about two and a half weeks in space.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: JAXA<\/em> <em>(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)\/Takuya Onishi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this photo from June 28, 2025, Expedition 73 flight engineer Jonny Kim and former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space Peggy Whitson work together inside the International Space Station\u2019s Destiny laboratory module setting up hardware for cancer research. The hardware is used to culture patient-derived cancer cells, model their growth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15688,15651,15652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-crew","category-international-space-station-iss","category-iss-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255789,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255785\/revisions\/255789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}