MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Ala. (WAAY) - A big space launch was postponed Monday.

And the delay is adding extra time to what many hope, will lead to a medical breakthrough.

Those experiments will be sent up to the International Space Station.

Not only will they be monitored from right here in Huntsville, one of the experiments themselves was designed here.

"We've been in business here for 13 years, so we've been in business pretty much since it started," says Ricardo Rodriguez, the Payload Operations Manager.

Here at the Marshall Space Flight Center, these workers are kept busy studying science.

"We are in charge of the science that happens on ISS. This control room you see behind me is where we manage all of the science that is going on on ISS, Rodriguez says.

Part of that science is from right here in North Alabama at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

"There's a payload going up, it's a protein crystal growth payload, and what that means is they're growing crystals of our human proteins on orbit, says Rodriguez.

Which could have big implications here on earth.

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Launch delayed for new ISS experiments