{"id":18129,"date":"2025-07-24T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18129\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:53:08","slug":"nasa-astronaut-jonny-kim-axiom-mission-4-commander-peggy-whitson-conduct-research-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18129\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson Conduct Research in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this photo from June 28, 2025, Expedition 73 flight engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/jonny-kim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonny Kim<\/a> and former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axiomspace.com\/astronaut\/peggy-whitson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Peggy Whitson<\/a> work together inside the International Space Station\u2019s 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>Image credit: JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)\/Takuya Onishi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this photo from June 28, 2025, Expedition 73 flight engineer Jonny Kim and former NASA astronaut and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,14571,3312,14573,128,285],"class_list":["post-18129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commercial-crew","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-iss-research","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}