SAN FRANCISCO — A camera built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to capture high-resolution images of fires, floods and other environmental disasters is scheduled to travel to the international space station (ISS) on the July 21 flight of Japan’s cargo-carrying H-2 Transfer Vehicle-3.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...