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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, for their fifth official Commercial Resupply mission to the orbiting lab on Saturday, January 10 at 4:47am EST.
Mission: SpaceX CRS-5
Launch date: Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 4:47 a.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Research onboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule includes a range of experiments from the life sciences and education fields.
This video provides an overview of a CASIS/NASA/NIH investigation focused on immune suppression for aging adults by former astronaut Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford.
The mission patch developed by actor, creator, and producer Seth Green, represents all payloads intended for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory in calendar year 2015.
A two-headed worm achieved internet and popular media fame when researchers published a paper describing the worm and other results from their ISS National Lab experiment.
Dr. Hughes-Fulford discusses the role of micro-RNAs immunity and the utility of modeling immune dysfunction and aging in space.
