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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will carry the Dragon spacecraft on board, delivering it to orbit so that it can rendezvous with the ISS. Dragon is packed with more than 6,200 pounds equipment and supplies for the orbiting space station, as well as 60 new science experiments, according to NASA. Some of the supplies launching with CRS-27 will be used for a 3D bioprinter that launched to the ISS in November 2022, in what will be a fascinating attempt to build a full-sized meniscus in low Earth orbit.

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Also launching on board the Dragon spacecraft is NASA’s HUNCH Ball Clamp Monopod, a student-built project that could make it easier to film in space, and the Japanese Space Agency’s Tanpopo-5 investigation that studies how life survives in space and on alien planets. Dragon will also carry two cubesats for the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 50 mission to low Earth orbit.

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