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The cargo is being transported on the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket
An oven has been launched to the Global Location Location (ISS) for astronauts to bake chocolate chip cookies in.
A cargo craft containing the specially-designed “home oven” and baking substances took off from the US reveal of Virginia on Saturday.
Astronauts are set to envision what impact excessive warmth and zero gravity hold on the shape and consistency of the cookies.
The experiment is being dubbed the first event of baking in home.
Hilton’s DoubleTree resort chain, which offered the dough, stated the “landmark microgravity experiment” changed into as soon as aimed at making lengthy-duration home shuffle “extra hospitable”.
The Cygnus pill changed into as soon as moreover loaded with other unfamiliar equipment, including sports car points and a vest to guard in opposition to radiation.
ISS astronauts will take a look at the protection vest to gauge its comfort, whereas Italian carmaker Lamborghini has sent up samples of carbon fibre mature in its sports autos to have faith the outcomes of insist home exposure.
The pill moreover contains the equipment crucial to complete a series of spacewalks this month to repair a key particle physics detector, moreover to a form of learn equipment and crew offers.
The cargo, weighing about 8,200lb (3,700kg), is anticipated to attain the ISS on Monday.
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