{"id":778412,"date":"2024-03-06T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778412"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:55:59","slug":"vascular-calcium-equipment-heading-to-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778412","title":{"rendered":"Vascular Calcium equipment heading to the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<head>&#13;<br \/>\n<meta charset=\"utf-8\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=Edge\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    <!-- Web Experience Toolkit (WET) \/ Bo&icirc;te &agrave; outils de l'exp&eacute;rience Web (BOEW)\n    wet-boew.github.io\/wet-boew\/License-en.html \/ wet-boew.github.io\/wet-boew\/Licence-fr.html -->&#13;<br \/>\n    <title>Vascular Calcium equipment heading to the International Space Station | Canadian Space Agency<\/title>&#13;<br \/>\n    <meta content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1\" name=\"viewport\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n    <!-- Meta data -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n    <meta name=\"dcterms.description\" content=\"SpaceX Crew-8 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on March 2, 2024. 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