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The cells being used for the experiment, which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are on board Endeavour.
"When you thinks about all the weeks you putinto an experiment like that," Mishra says,"Tuning, Calibrating...and then nothing works--tobe able to say that is hilarious."
As the space shuttle Endeavour prepares for its return to earth, researchers at Harvard Medical School eagerly await the data of an experiment they designed to test the effects of weightlessness on bone and muscle tissue.
"It was amazing to see [the launch] and know that you had an experiment on board," says Dr. Louis Gerstenfeld, one of the researchers. "This is an opportunity to study an experiment that cannot be done on earth."
The experiment could have practical applications for life on earth, researchers say.