SpaceX’s 34th ISS Cargo Flight Carries Fresh Microgravity Experiments

SpaceX launched the 34th NASA cargo mission to the International Space Station, delivering about 6,500 pounds of supplies and a suite of new experiments aboard the Dragon spacecraft. Liftoff was May 15 from Cape Canaveral, with autonomous docking scheduled for May 17 at the Harmony module. Dragon will stay through mid-June before returning to Earth with time-sensitive research. Experiments include a wood-based bone scaffold, microgravity simulators, studies of red blood cells and the spleen in space, a charged-particle instrument to study near-Earth radiation, and instruments for precise sunlight measurements of Earth and the Moon, among hundreds of ISS investigations.