The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. NCATS-funded tissue chips that mimic the immune system were on board. Liftoff was at 1:16 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2018.
Credit: NASA Photo
Posted by NIH-NCATS on 2019-03-26 18:41:24
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