Even though this mission was sans crew, it wasn’t light on action. It carried a whopping 33 science payloads into low orbit, with over half of them coming from NASA. Researchers got a few minutes of weightlessness to conduct remote studies on these payloads. One example is Honeybee Robotics’ payload, which delved into the strength of planetary soils under varying gravity conditions. Oh, and let’s not forget the 38,000 student postcards from the Club for the Future initiative that hitched a ride.
