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NASA Ames sends unusual payload to astronauts

Original post made on Apr 11, 2016

Cracking open a delivery of resupply cargo on Sunday, the astronauts orbiting Earth at the International Space Station discovered a new batch of oddities from the NASA Ames Research Center -- live mice, fungi spores and a pile of yeast.


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Posted by Space menagerie
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Apr 11, 2016 at 3:05 pm

Can't you just picture mice getting loose in the ISS, finding niches to hide in? Nibbling through things like air-supply hoses in search of food. Astronauts trying to improvise mousetraps from available supplies. Not to mention what happens in zero gravity to any little amount of solid or liquid that gets loose (it floats randomly and can settle on anything).


Posted by Cosmonaut
a resident of another community
on Apr 11, 2016 at 4:12 pm

whatever happened to cosmonauts? are they not participating in experiments?


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