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NASA Photo #0006629

Anna Holmes, left, a scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., shows Brett Haines, a Gatesville, Texas, High School student, how biological solutions are mixed to grow crystals on Earth. Haines and five other Gatesville High students prepared biological samples that will be delivered to the International Space Station early next year.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given.)

NASA Photo #0006630

Bobby Hill, right, a Gatesville, Texas, High School student, loads a biological sample that will be delivered to the International Space Station early next year. Hill and five other students from Gatesville High attended an educational workshop sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Margaret Baguio, left, a teacher with the Texas Space Grant Consortium, assisted the students who were selected by the Texas Consortium to load the flight samples.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Photo by Emmett Given)

NASA Photo #0006627

John Perkey, left, an engineer with the University of California at Irvine, shows student Jessica Murdock, right, the small plastic tube used to contain biological samples that form microscopic crystals aboard the International Space Station. Murdock was one of six students from Gatesville, Texas, High School selected to prepare samples for delivery to the Space Station early next year.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given)

NASA Photo #0006631

Students from Gatesville, Texas, High School and their teacher LaVonda Popp, right front, learn how crystals are grown on the ground and in space. During a workshop sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the students prepared biological samples that will be used to grow crystals on the International Space Station early next year.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given)

NASA Photo #0006628

Jessica Murdock, right, a Gatesville, Texas, High School student, works with scientists from the University of California at Irvine to freeze samples destined for the International Space Station early next year. Murdock was one of six Gatesville High students who loaded samples during a workshop sponsored by the Biotechnology Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.; the University of California at Irvine; the University of Alabama in Huntsville; the Alabama Space Grant Consortium; and the Texas Space Grant Consortium.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Photo by Emmett Given.)

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