SpaceX’s real Dragon – the company’s spacecraft that transports supplies and science to the International Space Station (ISS) – will deliver, and later return, new technology, biology and biotechnology and Earth and space science research to the orbiting outpost.
A view of seedling growth in a petri dish during space shuttle Discovery’s STS-95 mission in 1998, which used similar hardware to the upcoming Biological Research in Canisters -19 investigation aboard the International Space Station.