SpaceX's CRS-35 cargo Dragon is scheduled to dock with the ISS around 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 15 with more than 6,000 pounds of food, research and hardware. Space.com's preview says the supplies are mainly for the four astronauts of Crew-13.
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Glasgow and Kyushu researchers plan to fly two teaspoons of whisky on a CubeSat for five years
University of Glasgow and Kyushu Institute of Technology researchers plan a 2028 CubeSat carrying 0.3 fluid ounces of whisky to orbit for five years. The team pitches the flight as groundwork for making drugs in orbit, a goal that for now rests on a sensor whose published test was telling whiskies apart in the lab.
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NASA's Crew-13 launched four crew Thursday on a Dragon due to dock at the space station 7 hours 50 minutes later, a U.S. record by NASA's account. NASA stated the record before the docking took place, so it holds only once the 7 p.m. arrival happens.
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Crew-12 heads home in early October after crystallising cancer-targeting drugs in orbit
NASA's Crew-12, four astronauts from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos, is due back from the space station in early October. The agency's look back sets out what the crew's experiments in drug crystallisation, bone repair and quantum physics were built to test.
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Simulated weightlessness swells the nucleus of live human cells in an NYU rotator
Alexandra Zidovska's group at NYU built a rotating stage that cancels most of the fluid flow such rigs create, then compared cells under simulated weightlessness, under strong flow, and untouched for 24 hours.
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An orbiting atom interferometer spent 280 days comparing how two rubidium isotopes fall
A team led by Mingsheng Zhan compared the freefall of two rubidium isotopes aboard the China Space Station. The 2.8 x 10^-8 uncertainty they report is the best any quantum test has managed. It is also well short of what macroscopic experiments already do.
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