Nasa To Furnish Coverage Equally Dragon Departs Station With Science
NASA too its international partners are fix to have scientific inquiry samples as well as hardware every bit a SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Wednesday, Dec. twenty.
Dragon volition undock from the station'second Harmony module at ix:05 p.one thousand. too burn its thrusters to move a rubber distance away from the station afterwards receiving a control from ground controllers at SpaceX inward Hawthorne, California.
After re-entering Earth'sec atmosphere, the spacecraft will splash downward off the coast of Florida. NASA will not broadcast the splashdown, merely updates volition be posted on the means's infinite station blog.
Dragon will deport dorsum to Earth more than iv,300 pounds of supplies together with scientific experiments designed to accept reward of the space station'second microgravity environment. Splashing downwards off the coast of Florida enables quick shipping of the experiments to NASA'sec Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center inward Florida, allowing researchers to collect information alongside minimal sample exposure to earth'second gravity.
Scientific hardware in addition to samples returning to world include Planet Habitat-03, which assesses whether genetic adaptations inwards one generation of plants grown inwards infinite tin transfer to the side by side generation. This is i of the kickoff multi-generation plant biology studies in scope.
Other studies include JAXA'second (Nihon Aerospace Exploration Agency) Cell Gravisensing, an investigation that looks at how cells sense in addition to answer to the effects of gravity. Results could promote drug evolution for treating muscle atrophy too osteoporosis.
Also returning on Dragon is Genes inwards Space-ten, a educatee-led projection that tests a method for inwards-ambit measure of the length of telomeres, cap-like structures at the cease of deoxyribonucleic acid strands that shorten amongst age, only accept been establish to lengthen inward infinite.
Additionally, samples from MaRVIn-PCIM (Microgravity Research for Versatile Investigations-Phase Change inward Mixtures) as well as Neuronix (Innovative Paralysis Therapy Enabling Neuroregeneration) likewise are returning to world for scientific analysis.
Dragon arrived at the station Nov. eleven every bit SpaceX'second 29th commercial resupply services mission for NASA, delivering almost vi,500 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, too station hardware. The spacecraft launched November. nine on a SpaceX Falcon ix rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy.
These are but a few of the hundreds of investigations currently beingness conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology as well as biotechnology, physical sciences, too Earth in addition to space science. Advances inward these areas volition help go on astronauts salubrious during long-duration space move and demonstrate technologies for future man as well as robotic exploration beyond low globe scope to the moon in addition to Mars through NASA'second Artemis program.
Learn more nearly the International Space Station at:
https://www.nasa.gov/international-infinite-station/
SOURCE NASA
Dragon volition undock from the station'second Harmony module at ix:05 p.one thousand. too burn its thrusters to move a rubber distance away from the station afterwards receiving a control from ground controllers at SpaceX inward Hawthorne, California.
After re-entering Earth'sec atmosphere, the spacecraft will splash downward off the coast of Florida. NASA will not broadcast the splashdown, merely updates volition be posted on the means's infinite station blog.
Dragon will deport dorsum to Earth more than iv,300 pounds of supplies together with scientific experiments designed to accept reward of the space station'second microgravity environment. Splashing downwards off the coast of Florida enables quick shipping of the experiments to NASA'sec Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center inward Florida, allowing researchers to collect information alongside minimal sample exposure to earth'second gravity.
Scientific hardware in addition to samples returning to world include Planet Habitat-03, which assesses whether genetic adaptations inwards one generation of plants grown inwards infinite tin transfer to the side by side generation. This is i of the kickoff multi-generation plant biology studies in scope.
Other studies include JAXA'second (Nihon Aerospace Exploration Agency) Cell Gravisensing, an investigation that looks at how cells sense in addition to answer to the effects of gravity. Results could promote drug evolution for treating muscle atrophy too osteoporosis.
Also returning on Dragon is Genes inwards Space-ten, a educatee-led projection that tests a method for inwards-ambit measure of the length of telomeres, cap-like structures at the cease of deoxyribonucleic acid strands that shorten amongst age, only accept been establish to lengthen inward infinite.
Additionally, samples from MaRVIn-PCIM (Microgravity Research for Versatile Investigations-Phase Change inward Mixtures) as well as Neuronix (Innovative Paralysis Therapy Enabling Neuroregeneration) likewise are returning to world for scientific analysis.
Dragon arrived at the station Nov. eleven every bit SpaceX'second 29th commercial resupply services mission for NASA, delivering almost vi,500 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, too station hardware. The spacecraft launched November. nine on a SpaceX Falcon ix rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy.
These are but a few of the hundreds of investigations currently beingness conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology as well as biotechnology, physical sciences, too Earth in addition to space science. Advances inward these areas volition help go on astronauts salubrious during long-duration space move and demonstrate technologies for future man as well as robotic exploration beyond low globe scope to the moon in addition to Mars through NASA'second Artemis program.
Learn more nearly the International Space Station at:
https://www.nasa.gov/international-infinite-station/
SOURCE NASA
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