WHY ARE WE SENDING SEEDS
A ROBOTIC ARM
A NEW RESEARCH FACILITY
AND CONCRETE TO THE SPACE STATION?
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS A LAB LIKE NO OTHER
A SPACEX DRAGON WILL SOON DELIVER DOZENS OF NEW EXPERIMENTS
LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON BOARD THE 23RD SPACEX CARGO MISSION
APEX-08
GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED SEEDS COULD HELP RESEARCHERS DESIGN
PLANTS BETTER SUITED FOR MICROGRAVITY.
FARADAY RESEARCH FACILITY
A NEW MULTIPURPOSE RESEARCH FACILITY WILL HOST A VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS, INCLUDING
STUDIES DEVELOPED BY GIRL SCOUTS, AND AN IMPLANT TO REMOTELY ADMINISTER DRUGS.
MISSE-15 NASA
CONCRETE, FIBERGLASS COMPOSITES, SOLAR CELLS, RADIATION PROTECTION MATERIALS, AND
MORE WILL BE TESTED FOR DURABILITY IN THE HARSH SPACE ENVIRONMENT.
NANORACKS-GITAI ROBOTIC ARM
A JAPANESE ROBOTIC ARM WILL CONDUCT A SERIES OF TASKS TO DEMONSTRATE HOW ROBOTIC LABOR
COULD REDUCE THE COST OF SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS AND IMPROVE CREW SAFETY.
READI-FP
RESEARCHERS WILL STUDY HOW BIOACTIVE METABOLITES IN WINE PRODUCTION
WASTE COULD MITIGATE BONES LOSS RELATED TO OSTEOPOROSIS.
RETINAL DIAGNOSTICS
RESEARCHERS WILL CAPTURE IMAGES OF ASTRONAUTS’ RETINAS TO TEST A SMALL, LIGHT-BASED
DEVICE WHICH MAY SERVE AS A MOBILE RETINAL DIAGNOSTICS TOOL IN SPACE AND ON EARTH.
THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL JOIN THE HUNDREDS OF ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY
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