In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and ...

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On March 11, 2008, the first Japanese module of the International Space Station launched on the space shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-123. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

In 1990, NASA carried out an unusual experiment that involved sending thousands of baby jellyfish into space. The goal was to study how living organisms develop in microgravity — and what that might ...

Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby jellyfish ...

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...

NASA’s AVATAR experiment uses organ chip models from astronauts to study bone marrow and immune response in microgravity and deep space radiation environments.

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a ...

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