SpaceX sends Christmas present to space station
The SpaceX Dragon capsule was received by astronauts at the International Space Station, carrying early Christmas gifts from the company, marking SpaceX's 19th successful delivery for NASA in 7 years. The gifts include genetically engineered mice with twice the normal mass for an experiment, pesticidal worms and a prototype of an artificially intelligent robot to act as an astronaut's assistant, which tries to sense their emotional states.
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