SPACE BENEFITS
Astronauts traveling to the moon or Mars in microgravity may experience injury or trauma,
initiating the wound healing process. The blood vessel experiment seeks potential treatments
to reduce any negative effects of microgravity on wound healing and blood vessel formation.
RESULTS
Preliminary results from CCM-Wound Repair show that the cells were successfully cultured and
returned to Earth. Data analysis is ongoing to determine deviations in cell pathology between
flight and ground cells used to characterize the microgravity induced stresses on the flight
samples.
This investigation is complete; however additional results are pending publication.