NG-11 Payload Preview: BioNutrients

Will Smoot

April 21, 2019

Filtered by Month: April 2019

Almost everyone know if you put yeast with the correct ingredients you can make bread, or wine or beer. Have you ever thought about making vitamins, or even medicine? This is the focus of the BioNutrients experiment, carried to the International Space Station aboard Cygnus during the NG-11 mission.

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