FFL

Fruit Fly Lab

past Mission

Type

Experiment

Launch

Jan. 10, 2015

Location

ISS

Objective

Study fruit flies

NASA's Fruit Fly Lab provides a research platform aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for long-duration fruit fly studies in space.

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