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NASA RATS EXPERIMENT
In 1979, Cosmos 1129 flew five female and two male rats for 18.5 days and allowed them to mate; no normal pregnancies resulted in flight, while a later ground study produced healthy littersCosmos 1129, a Soviet biosatellite, conducted groundbreaking research on rat reproduction in space. Through ground simulations that mimicke...- In 1983, NASA flew six rats in Challenger’s crew cabin for a 6-day test; the cage kept them healthy, but engineers called for a 20% more water safety marginIn 1983, six brave rats embarked on an experimental journey aboard the Challenger shuttle. Their specially designed enclosure ensured prote...
- In 1998, NASA flew crickets on Neurolab to study how spaceflight affects developing nervous systems; across the 16-day mission, they joined about 2,000 animals in spaceDuring the Neurolab mission, the space shuttle Columbia hosted 2,000 animals, crickets being one of them, to examine spaceflight's impacts ...
- In 2005, NASA flew five thick-toed geckos aboard Foton-M2 for 16 days without food or water; all were recovered with no apparent negative health effectsFive geckos orbited Earth for sixteen days without food or water. Researchers studied how weightlessness affects these cold-blooded animals...
- In 1987, Bion 8 carried monkeys Yerosha and Dryoma for 13 days; Yerosha escaped part of his restraints before the capsule landed 1,850 miles off targetThe Soviet Bion program studied weightlessness effects using rhesus macaques. Bion 8 launched in 1987 with two monkeys, Yerosha and Dryoma....
- On STS-51B, NASA flew 24 rats and 2 squirrel monkeys with Spacelab-3; one monkey showed space sickness while the rats returned with muscle lossIn 1985, Challenger carried rats and monkeys to study microgravity's effects. One monkey experienced space sickness, mirroring human astron...
- Reaching Mars could cost you a kidney, here are the detailsA recent UCL study, featured in Nature Communications, reveals significant kidney health risks for Mars-bound astronauts. Analyzing data fr...
- Selena Gomez breaks silence on ‘Emilia Perez’ controversy: ‘Some magic has disappeared’ but ‘no regrets’Netflix has reportedly distanced itself from Oscar-nominated actor Karla Sofia Gascon after backlash over her derogatory posts on X, removi...
- Excerpt from Ashlee Vance's Elon Musk: How the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our futureAn excerpt from Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: How theBillionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future.
- Space research to help humans fight illnesses on EarthNew research on leukocytes - human defence cells - seeks to understand how these tiny warriors mount their defence, researchers said.
- NASA to send rats to space to test micro-gravityTo conduct tests on long term effect of micro-gravity on living organisms,NASA plans to send rats for longer duration to International Spac...
- Doctors to perform first 'weightless surgery'A team of French doctors will operate on a man under near-weightless conditions on Wednesday - a world first and what they hope will be a s...
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