SpaceX CRS-9, also known as SpX-9, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which launched on July 18 2016. The mission was contracted by NASA and operated by SpaceX using the new Dragon capsule.
The cargo was successfully carried aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 and included a Micro-gRx florescence polarization test. The experiment was performed by Astronaut Kate Rubins aboard the ISS and would be the precursor to the propel Micro-gRx into the fabrication of “lab on chip” technology.
SpaceX CRS-9 successfully launches Falcon 9, July 18, 2016.
Falcon 9's re-usable solid rocket booster returns safely to Cape Canaveral after launch.
Astronaut Kate Rubins displays a Micro-gRx 384 well plate used to test the absorbance mode of the plate reader on the ISS.
Results: data demonstrates that protein binding (biotin-streptavidin) experiments can be performed on the ISS plate reader.