Florida Museum Fossils Go to Space
UF researcher Rob Ferl carried 56-million-year-old primate and horse jawbones, plus a Pleistocene moon snail shell from the Florida Museum of Natural History, on a suborbital flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Encore: UF Space Biologist Conducts Novel Research During Suborbital Flight
UF Space Biologist Rob Ferl discussed his groundbreaking experiment on how space travel affects plant genes, conducted with NASA’s Flight Opportunities program aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket.
UF Scientist Rob Ferl Completes Historic Space Mission
University of Florida scientist Rob Ferl took a giant leap for research Thursday when he became the first NASA-funded university researcher to conduct his own experiments in space during a flawless sub-orbital mission on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
UF Scientist Prepares To Launch Into Space Thursday, Aug. 29
Rob Ferl, the director of the University of Florida Astraeus Space Institute, will fly on the Blue Origin craft on 8/29 to conduct an experiment studying the adaptation process of plants in space.
