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Title    Moldy Mouse Munch Postpones SpaceX CRS Launch: Wed Dec 5 @ 1816 UTC (1316 EST)
Date    Wednesday December 05 2018, @05:16PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the this-time-for-sure dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/12/05/1527250

martyb writes:

Monday's SpaceX launch was a success with both the landing and with the booster recovery. Unfortunately, the second launch mentioned in that story had to be delayed:

Moldy Mouse Food Postpones SpaceX Launch:

SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.

[...] Some 40 mice are part of the experiment aimed at studying the effects of microgravity in the immune system.

The launch will be the 16th for SpaceX, as part of an ongoing contract with NASA to send supplies to the astronauts living at the space station.

Some 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of food, experiments and other gear is packed onto the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, which will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Launch is scheduled for 1 hour after this story goes live.

The launch will be live-streamed on YouTube starting approximately 15 minutes before launch time.


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  1. "martyb" - https://soylentnews.org/~martyb/
  2. "SpaceX launch" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/12/02/0324233
  3. "Moldy Mouse Food Postpones SpaceX Launch" - https://phys.org/news/2018-12-moldy-mouse-food-postpones-spacex.html
  4. "live-streamed on YouTube" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh1jHT9oTA
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30471

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