NASA astronauts in area talk coronavirus and more with the CDC

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NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins as seen gathering plant samples on the International Spaceport Station on Jan. 28, 2021.
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Like many of us separating at home, Walker and the other astronauts who signed up with Rubins on the area station in November 2020 did whatever they could to prevent catching COVID-19 In spite of changing work conditions on Earth, NASA has been able to get cargo automobiles sent out to the area station to resupply the astronauts and to bring them experiments, she said.

She informed the CDC about a task to create a detailed microbial map of the space station, taking 1,000 swabs around the space.

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