Several institutions are sending experiments into orbit as part of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, including investigations into human health in space.
SpaceX is all set and ready for the historic Polaris Dawn mission to launch tomorrow, in which four private astronauts will travel into orbit and perform the first commercial spacewalk. Scheduled for launch early on Tuesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crew will travel in a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a five-day mission.
Part of the selling point of the mission is that it is not just space tourism but a chance to perform useful scientific research. Several institutions are sending experiments into orbit as part of the mission, including a groups of experiments into human health run by Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine.
