Space-station rendezvous set to spur research push

Space-station rendezvous set to spur research push – Nature – April 25, 2012.  Upcoming docking of commercial supply craft heralds easier access to orbiting laboratory. Samples from experiments performed on the International Space Station may soon have a return route to Earth aboard the Dragon capsule developed by SpaceX….  Imara Perera, a plant biologist at NC State, is featured.