Sharmila Bhattacharya, PhD, senior scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, briefly discusses new micro-laboratory units that house thousands of Drosophila melanogaster for study and provide the model organisms with safe transport and secure storage throughout launch, orbit, and their eventual return to Earth.

The Multi-use Variable-gravity Platform (MVP) Validation mission, currently underway on the International Space Station, is the pilot test for TechShot, the manufacturer, before the technology can be approved for commercial space applications.

Click here to read more about the mission on NASA’s News Outlet.