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UofT researcher watching SpaceX launch

July 18, 2016

Metro News | July 18, 2016

Aaron Per­sad spent Sun­day night in Toron­to focused on Cape Canaver­al in Flori­da.   That’s where a SpaceX rock­et was slat­ed to blast off short­ly after mid­night Mon­day, bound for the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion. On board is an exper­i­ment spear­head­ed by Per­sad and his fel­low researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. The mis­sion: gain a bet­ter under­stand­ing of how water, and oth­er liq­uids, behave in space. Read more.