Liftoff is set for 8:28 p.m. EDT Thursday for NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 cargo resupply mission from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.
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Pinecrest Academy Space Coast Middle School "Bacteria Boys" experiment conducted by eighth-grade students officially launches into space. They’ll leverage the International Space Station National Laboratory to test whether Limulus Amebocyte Lysate, a component in horseshoe crab blood, can detect bacterial contamination in microgravity the same way it does on Earth.