Fahrenheit during the trip to the space station

The headset, which weighs a little more than one pound, is packed with sensors, a custom-built holographic processing unit and a ton of cameras. There's a front-facing camera and four environment-mapping cameras -- split into pairs on the left and right corners of the lens –- that make the precise placement of holograms possible.

One of the first things I noticed about the headset was its see-through "holographic lens". It's held in place by a matte black frame that looped around my head. I could move the lens front and back ever so lightly to fix it at a comfortable distance away from my face (and enough room for my large-framed prescription glasses too). There's a second black rim with an adjustment wheel to tighten the device around the head. It supports the entire contraption and keeps it firmly but comfortably in place.

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The fungi will be kept at 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit during the trip to the space station, where they'll be thawed and stored at the ideal growth temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for up to seven days. Wang's team will get the specimens back for testing in May, hopefully after having produced the molecules that can be used for drug development. If the experiment works, then that means the researchers successfully found a way to make medicine in space. And as Professor Wang said: