PITTSBURGH — Jason Gomes enrolled in Community College of Allegheny County to study biotechnology. Until this fall, he hadn't thought about sending cancer into space — or sending anything into space.
Yet here he is, doing pre-experiments, procuring the live cancer cells of an African clawed frog, planning to fly to Cape Canaveral in Florida to watch a Space X Dragon vessel carrying his experiment blast off for the International Space Station sometime later this year.
"It's been pretty crazy," he said, in an understatement of galactic proportions.
