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SpaceX Dragon will head to the ISS on NASA\u2019s CRS-33 mission with groundbreaking research in organ engineering, stem cells and orbital computing. [NASA]<\/p>\n
SpaceX\u2019s NASA-funded CRS-33 aims to launch no earlier than 2:45 a.m. EDT Sunday<\/a> from Cape Canaveral with research focused on organ engineering, stem cells and space-based computing. The manifest features Wake Forest\u2019s blood-vessel-containing liver tissue<\/a>, Cedars-Sinai stem cell studies<\/a> and Axiom Space\u2019s Red Hat Device Edge demo, plus student experiments from Genes in Space and Higher Orbits.<\/p>\n The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine project will test engineered liver tissue with integrated blood vessels in microgravity, building on NASA\u2019s Vascular Tissue Challenge. The work aims to refine tissue engineering methods that could enable organ replacements for patients on Earth and support long-duration space missions.<\/p>\n On the tech side, Axiom Space and Red Hat will validate the Red Hat Device Edge platform on station to process data in real time, a step toward commercial orbital data centers. \u201cOff-planet data processing is the next frontier, and edge computing is a crucial component,\u201d said Tony James, Red Hat\u2019s chief architect for science and space, in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\u2019s experiment will check if induced pluripotent stem cells divide faster in microgravity, a finding that could hurry regenerative medicine advances. The project expands on the team\u2019s past ISS work and targets in-space manufacturing of stem cell therapies for heart disease, neurodegenerative conditions and more.<\/p>\n NASA says Dragon will haul more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and experiments, with docking targeted for about 7:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 25, at the station\u2019s Harmony forward port. Launch coverage begins at 2:25 a.m. EDT Sunday on NASA+, with arrival coverage starting at 6 a.m. Monday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The manifest also includes bone-forming stem cells to study bone-loss prevention, materials to 3D-print medical implants that could aid nerve-repair, bioprinted liver tissue to examine blood-vessel development, and supplies to 3D-print metal test cubes in orbit.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Student science rounds out the payload. The Genes in Space-12 project, by 2024 winners Julia Gross and Isabelle Chuang, will explore bacteriophages as therapeutic agents for microbial infections in space, and Higher Orbits\u2019 Go For Launch! is sending multiple experiments from students in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Looking ahead, NASA will also use hardware in Dragon\u2019s trunk to demonstrate a station reboost kit beginning in September, with periodic burns planned through fall 2025; the spacecraft is expected to remain at the ISS until December before returning research to Earth.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n For related context on Cedars-Sinai\u2019s stem cell work, principal investigator Arun Sharma said microgravity helps heart organoids from pluripotent stem cells \u201cretain their three dimensional structure, because they\u2019re able to float.\u201d He added, in a broader article on the ISS<\/a>, that space could enable more intricate structures like blood vessels, which \u201ckind of fall apart\u201d under gravity\u2014part of broader efforts to advance regenerative medicine through in-orbit biomanufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon will head to the ISS on NASA\u2019s CRS-33 mission with groundbreaking research in organ engineering, stem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-100614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}