NASA astronaut Zena Cardman installs the Advanced Space Experiment Processor-2

iss073e0818458 (Oct. 2, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Zena Cardman installs the Advanced Space Experiment Processor-2 (ADSEP-2) inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module, which she removed earlier from the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft. ADSEP-2 can be launched to the orbital outpost and returned to Earth aboard commercial cargo vehicles. It supports a range of investigations, including cell and tissue culturing, protein crystal growth, microbiology, and materials science.