Elon Musk’s rocket sent a scientific project of schoolchildren from the Lviv region into space

The mini-laboratory created by Ukrainian children will be delivered to the International Space Station.

The SpaceX-31 rocket sent a scientific project created by schoolchildren from the city of Skole, Lviv region, to the International Space Station . This is reported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine .

The launch took place on November 4 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. On board the rocket, in particular, was an experimental sample of the winners of the All-Ukrainian contest of school space experiments SSEP of Skolivskyi ZZSO I-III degrees No. 2 named after Stefania Vitruk.

“The team’s experiment is called “Obtaining biomedical hydrogels in microgravity”. (…) The winners of the SSEP competition will be able to send real microgravity research minilaboratories to the ISS on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft,” the minister’s press service said.

It is noted that this is the third scientific project of Ukrainian schoolchildren to fly into space.

(C)UNIAN 2024