Student Scientists Persevere, Ready to Launch Experiments to Space Station

Students will look to the skies this week when SpaceX’s fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station lifts off at 6:18 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will carry scientific research conceived and designed by students who are learning first-hand what it takes to conduct research in space.