Research to mend broken bones, test implantable devices, and inspire future explorers on way to ISS - Phys.org

While millions of Americans program for the upcoming holidays, a assortment of captious probe and supplies volition caput to the International Space Station (ISS) arsenic portion of SpaceX's 26th Commercial Resupply Services ngo (SpaceX CRS-26). The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for motorboat onboard a Falcon 9 rocket to the abstraction presumption nary earlier than November 22, 2022, from Launch Pad 39A astatine NASA's Kennedy Space Center successful Florida.

Among the investigations launching connected this ngo are respective ISS National Laboratory-sponsored projects intending to bring worth to our federation done space-based probe and exertion development, portion enabling commerce successful debased Earth orbit.

Here is simply a speedy look astatine immoderate of these payloads:

• RevBio (formerly LaunchPad Medical), a clinical-stage aesculapian instrumentality company, volition further measure the company's proprietary bony adhesive, Tetranite, which tin velocity up caller bony maturation portion reducing betterment clip and discomfort successful patients with a bony fracture. The institution volition trial however good Tetranite works to regenerate bony successful microgravity.
• The Houston Methodist Research Institute volition trial an implantable cause transportation instrumentality that tin beryllium operated remotely to alteration the controlled organisation of therapeutics wrong the human body. If successful, the instrumentality could let doctors to remotely power drug delivery successful patients successful distant areas of Earth, oregon adjacent successful astronauts during spaceflight.
• The University of Florida is launching its latest task successful a bid of insubstantial spot investigations funded by the National Institutes of Health. Tissue chips mimic human physiology, allowing researchers to measure the information and efficacy of drugs for patients connected Earth. This squad seeks to make a insubstantial spot strategy to civilization and electrically stimulate quality skeletal muscles from young and older adults. If effective, this task could pb to therapeutics to dainty age-related musculus nonaccomplishment conditions connected Earth.
• The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, a yearly contention for mediate and precocious school-aged students, volition nonstop much than 20 student-led investigations to station. Among them are a fleet of MixStix experiments successful the areas of crystal growth, works biology, physics, and microbial research. Additionally, payloads supported by the Girl Scouts of America and Space Kids Global volition look astatine brine shrimp, ants, and works maturation successful debased Earth orbit.

Provided by International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory