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Joey Bailey, a student from Huntsville, Ala., High School, pours a biological solution into a sample tube where it will form a crystal. Numerous Alabama students participated in workshops, learning about biochemistry and crystal growth. Several Alabama students prepared experiment samples that astronauts will place inside the International Space Station.

PHOTO: Alabama Science in Motion photograph by Robert Fedusenko

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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 other Gatesville High students prepared biological samples that will be delivered to the International Space Station.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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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.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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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.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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ASA Photo #0006630: Bobby Hill, right, a Gatesville, Texas, High School student, loads a biological sample that will be delivered to the International Space Station. 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.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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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. Murdock and other Gatesville High students loaded samples during a workshop sponsored by the Biotechnology Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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: Students, helping with experiments to grow the first crystals aboard the International Space Station, learned about these glittering crystals grown on the Space Shuttle and the Russian space station Mir. The crystals, more valuable than gems, contain the blueprints for biological substances that make up humans, plants, animals and even viruses. The crystals, no larger than a millimeter (a fraction of an inch, or about the size of a tooth on the edge of a postage stamp), were photographed under a microscope.

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Two Gatesville, Texas, High School students, Aspen Evans, left, and Jacob Bekken, conduct a biochemistry experiment at a workshop sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. They helped prepare biological samples for an experiment that will be delivered to the International Space Station. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given)

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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: Jason Nolte, a student from Germantown, Tenn., High School, loads a sample that will may soon be on its way to the International Space Station.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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Ty Danielson, left, and Erin Armstrong, both from Germantown, Tenn., High School, learn how crystals are grown on Earth and in space during a workshop sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The students prepared biological samples that will form crystals on board the International Space Station.

PHOTO: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Emmett Given

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