Charm Sciences Swabs Launch to the International Space Station
September 27 2019 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LAWRENCE, Mass., Sept. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Charm
Sciences, Inc. is proud to announce that we have reached new
heights: we're in space! On September
25, when a multinational crew launched to the International
Space Station, they carried with them sampling swabs developed by
Charm Sciences for use in research that will be conducted on the
space station. "Charm Sciences and Zymo Research collaborated on a
sampling swab for NASA." said Robert J.
Markovsky, VP of Operations. "This swab was specifically
designed to ensure containment with a cap interlock and a sample
chamber seal so that once the sample is obtained in space it can
return to Earth for testing without fear of sample loss".
The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft. The launch
marked the last flight of their launch vehicle, the Soyuz-FG
rocket. The Expedition 61 crew of three included Hazza Al Mansouri, who is the first astronaut
from the United Arab Emirates.
Soyuz MS-15 lifted off on September 25,
2019 at 9:57 a.m. EDT and
docked to an International Space Station service module at EDT
3:42 p.m.
SOURCE Charm Sciences, Inc
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