Swedish-American astronaut Jessica Meir held a live conversation on Friday evening from the International Space Station ISS with Sweden's space minister and other participants.
Jessica Meir has been in space for one hundred days. Part of the mission is to study how the human body is affected by microgravity. The answers will be used for future space travel and research on cancer and blood diseases. During the conversation Meir said in Swedish:
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