Two payloads built at the University of Colorado, one of them designed to understand and potentially combat infections such as MRSA, will be aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that’s slated to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday.
The biomedical payloads are supported by CU’s BioServe Space Technologies NASA-funded center in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, which has built and flown more than 100 payloads on board more than 50 spaceflight missions, according to a news release.
The second of the two payloads will support research on the possible increase in the proliferation of stem cells in space, something that could aid biomedical therapy on Earth, the release stated.
This marks the ninth Dragon mission to the ISS on which SpaceX has carried CU-built payloads since 2012.
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