SpaceX to Deliver Cannabis<br />to International Space Station.<br />On Dec. 10, Front Range Biosciences announced<br />their partnership with SpaceCells USA Inc. and BioServe<br />Space Technologies to send cannabis to space.<br />A total of 480 legal hemp cultures, as well as coffee<br />cultures, will be sent to the International Space Station<br />via SpaceX’s next resupply mission in March 2020. .<br />Once aboard, the cultures will spend 30 days in a space-made<br />incubator before returning to the ground for examination.<br />According to Dr. Jonathan Vaughn, CEO of Front<br />Range Biosciences, the mission is being conducted<br />to test the longevity of “space experience mutations.”.<br />The mutations in question are believed to result<br />from microgravity and space radiation exposure<br />and will be examined through the samples’s RNA. .<br />There is science to support the theory that<br />plants in space experience mutations. This is<br />an opportunity to see whether those mutations<br />hold up once brought back to earth and if there<br />are new commercial applications, Dr. Jonathan Vaught, via press release .<br />Ultimately, researchers hope that the results will <br />“set the stage” for adapting plant life to climate change. .<br />These are big ideas we're pursuing and there's<br />a massive opportunity to bring to market new<br />Chemotypes, as well as Plants that can better<br />adapt to drought and cold conditions. We expect<br />to prove through these and other missions that<br />we can adapt the food supply to climate change, Peter McCullagh, SpaceCells CEO, via press release
