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University of Florida professor to fly Blue Origin New Shepard on mission for NASA

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University of Florida professor Rob Ferl will be aboard Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard rocket today .

Ferl is the director of UF 's Astraeus Space Institute .

He will study Arabidopsis thaliana's genes on the way to space.

The plant will be encapsulated in a device called a Kennedy Space Center Fixation Tube.

The number of people that are doing space-related research at the University of Florida is "pretty amazing," he said.

He said it gives more weight to UF 's efforts "with a bright light shone upon it" Blue Origin has its heavy lift New Glenn rocket gearing up for an inaugural launch from Cape Canaveral as early as Oct. 13 .

After this flight, New Shepard will have flown 43 humans into space.

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