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Operation Space Station: Science and Survival Preview

Season 52 Episode 20 | 30s

Witness life-or-death decisions 250 miles above Earth, as astronauts and Mission Control work together to survive moments of high danger on board humanity’s remarkable orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station.

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