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<\/a>Two days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Harmony module of the International Space Station<\/a> at 9:00 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n The 14th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-14) delivered about 5,800 pounds of\u00a0research, crew supplies and hardware<\/a> to the orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n Among the research arriving to the U.S. National Laboratory is a Metabolic Tracking<\/a>\u00a0investigation to evaluate the use of a new method to test, in microgravity, the metabolic impacts of pharmaceutical drugs. This could lead to more effective, less expensive medicines on Earth. The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP)<\/a> will serve as a new test bed aboard the space station, able to host 12 separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS<\/a>), which manages the U.S. National Laboratory, is sponsoring the investigation and the MVP.<\/p>\n Dragon will remain attached to the space station until May, when it will return to Earth with more than 3,500 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies.<\/p>\n Keep up to date with the latest news from the crew living in space by following https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/<\/a>, @space_station<\/a> and @ISS_Research<\/a> on Twitter, and the ISS Facebook<\/a> and ISS Instagram<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Get The Details…<\/a> ISS<\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Harmony module of the International Space Station<\/a> at 9:00 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n The 14th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-14) delivered about 5,800 pounds of\u00a0research, crew supplies and hardware<\/a> to the orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n Among the research arriving to the U.S. National Laboratory is a Metabolic Tracking<\/a>\u00a0investigation to evaluate the use of a new method to test, in microgravity, the metabolic impacts of pharmaceutical drugs. This could lead to more effective, less expensive medicines on Earth. The Multi-use Variable-g Platform (MVP)<\/a> will serve as a new test bed aboard the space station, able to host 12 separate experiment modules with samples such as plants, cells, protein crystals and fruit flies. The \u2026 Continue reading
\nMark Garcia <\/p>\nDragon Bolted to Station\u2019s Harmony Module<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
<\/a>Four spaceships are docked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon space freighter, the Progress 69 resupply ship and the Soyuz MS-07 and MS-08 crew ships. <\/p>\n