Local Boy Scouts Prepare To Send STEM Experiment To International Space Station – Journal & Topics Newspapers Online

After winning a contest sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) for the past two years, Boy Scout Troop 209 AMES has been preparing to send an experiment to Space.

The Scouts created a project that will be brought to the International Space Station to study the rate of mutation of DNA in microgravity. The experiment could impact the future of cancer and tissue growth research.

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