Passengers Announced for NASA's Biggest Rocket.

The article focuses on plans to include 13 CubeSats during the test launch of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Space Launch System in 2018. It states the CubeSats include a mission to the near-earth asteroid 1991 VG to collect data on the asteroid's spin and topography, the Biosentinal which will monitor the effect of radiation on yeast in deep space, and the Lunar IceCube satellite. It mentions three missions will be chosen from entries unaffiliated with NASA.