— NASA is about to announce the winners of its latest Centennial Challenge to grow human tissue in a lab, and you can watch the action live online. .

On Wednesday (June 9), the space agency will announce the top two winners of a competition to grow and sustain human tissue in a laboratory here on Earth.

The first-place winner will also have the chance to send a research investigation to the International Space Station as part of an effort to expand their research. !

One of the 11 participating teams, Techshot, has already sent hardware into space that could one day print human tissue in orbit!

That project aims to 3D print tissues and even human organs — such as hearts or lungs.

BFF's next flight to the space station will be later this summer, as it rides to orbit on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft.

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