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University of Florida horticulture science professor Rob Ferl is aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Ferl will be looking at how its genes adapt on the way to space.
The plants are the representative for what terrestrial biology has to go through when it travels off-world.
The plant will experience weightlessness for a few minutes and then return to Earth with a parachute landing.
Ferl will become Blue Origin’s first NASA -funded flight participant.
He will be joined on the flight by Nicolina Elrick , Eugene Grin , Eiman Jahangir , Karsen Kitchen and Ephraim Rabin .
The headline-grabbing event comes in the first year of UF 's new space institute being formed.
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