Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, will launch a spacecraft loaded with 5,700 pounds of supplies — including a group of genetically enhanced 'mighty mice' — to the International Space Station on Thursday.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule will fly to orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly at 12:30 pm ET on Thursday. It's slated to link up with the space station on Sunday.The mission was scheduled to take off on Wednesday, but rough winds in the upper atmosphere caused a one-day delay.The mice, from the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory in Maine, have genes manipulated to enhance their muscle growth.
The ISS is an orbiting laboratory the size of a five-bedroom home, and it has hosted rotating crews of astronauts since 2000. More than 100 countries have so far used the lab to conduct nearly 3,000 scientific investigations involving everything from health and medicine to astrophysics, according to NASA.The microgravity environment aboard the space station provides a place where physical and biological phenomena aren't bogged down by the Earth's pull.
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