Today in outer space! 2 May 2005: Launch of Maser 10 in the final flight of the Skylark rocket.

On 02 May 2005, the Skylark Soundcraft took off on its 441st and final flight. Skylark was a British acoustic rocket designed to transport European research experiments into the high atmosphere and beyond the space frontier.

The latest Skylark rocket launched as part of a Swedish mission called Maser 10. This was the tenth mission under the Swedish Space Society's microgravity rocket program. Its payload consisted of 4 experimental modules with 3 fluid physics experiments and 2 biological experiments.

A biological experiment investigated how microgravity affects the metabolism of mammalian cells. The other examined a protein that affects inflammation and immunity in people. Physical experiments have studied how microgravity affects evaporation, thermal radiation, and convection in liquids. Maser 10 took these experiments to an altitude of 155 miles, which is 93 miles above the atmosphere, where the rocket experienced six minutes of weightlessness.