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iss069e054159 (Aug. 4, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen wears personal protective equipment (PPE) shortly after entering the Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter. The PPE protects an astronaut from eye contact with and breathing in any dust or debris that may have dislodged during the spacecraft's ascent to orbit. Bowen poses with a portrait of NASA astronaut Laurel Clark, whom the Cygnus cargo craft is named after, who perished aboard space shuttle Columbia during its return to Earth on Feb. 1, 2003.