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Last year he was one of the astronauts on the European Space Agency’s journey to the International Space Station.

"I was reading a magazine article on the Gemini astronauts. I was probably nine years old, and I thought that's the coolest thing. That's what I want to do," she says.

Inside one darkened room in the show, a life-size, glass “portrait” of the astronaut Lawrence appears to be levitating as if free from gravitational forces.

Understanding how the fast solar wind forms and behaves will also refine models of the heliosphere, which is vital for spacecraft engineering and astronaut safety.

When astronauts touch down near the moon's south pole in the coming years as part of NASA's Artemis program, they may discover a remarkable archive of clues about how the moon was born.