Just to give you a sense of what we're working on...a major part of our study involves looking at thousands of photos from the 20-year history of @Space_Station. We're using publicly-available images from NASA's Flickr account to train our AI algorithm for tagging more photos.

In the process, we've been able to scrape all kinds of metadata about the photos, allowing us to identify who is located where on ISS and when. Here's a simple query: where are women seen compared to men? Nobody has ever asked this question for a space habitat before.

Note: there are wildly varying numbers of photos for various modules in our test sample: 1500 for Destiny, 1100 for Zvezda, but 60 for Poisk, and just 6 for BEAM.

Still, we can compare to what we know about ISS demographics. There have been 38 women visitors to ISS out of 240 total (16%); 17 women have been long-term residents out of 120 (14%). Of the 17 residents, 15 are American, one Russian, and one Italian.

It's notable, then, that 22% of the people seen in the Cupola are women, compared to 15% in the Destiny lab and 9% in Node 3, where the US exercise equipment is.

There are biases in the photos that we need to account for. For example, the 7000 photos of the ISS interior on Flickr were selected by NASA Public Affairs to promote NASA and its activities. So we asked for (and now have access to) the full set of images in the archives.

This is just preliminary work! There is *so much more* that we 're going to be doing with these images. Just for a start, we're also looking at occupation of modules by nationality and by space agency.