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PIA22920: CAL Astronaut Installation

This image shows astronaut Ricky Arnold assisting with the installation of NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory on the International Space Station.

Mission:	CAL
Product Size:	478 x 375 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	NASA
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA22920.tif (538.2 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA22920.jpg (38.02 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Astronaut Ricky Arnold assists with the installation of NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) on the International Space Station.

The Cold Atom Laboratory launched to the space station on May 21, 2018, aboard a Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Designed and built at JPL, CAL is sponsored by the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications (SLPSRA) Division of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

More information on CAL is online at: http://coldatomlab.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2018-12-20