SpaceX Dragon Delivers First Chinese Experiments To ISS

Credit: Dragon: Frank Morring, Jr.
Among experiments reaching the International Space Station (ISS) on the first SpaceX Dragon capsule to revisit the orbiting outpost is a 3.5-kg experiment provided by the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) that will study the effects of the in-space environment on genes. NASA is prohibited by law...

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