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NASA's Artemis 1 to launch world's first deep-space biology mission

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NASA will launch its Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on August 29 and it will head to the Moon. The spacecraft will carry the Orion capsule and 10 CubeSats, including the BioSentinel mission - a cereal box-sized satellite that will be the first long-duration biology experiment in deep space. It will house yeast cells and shall study how space radiation impacts it.