Why NASA sent 2,478 jellyfish to space to study gravity

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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NASA sent 2,000 baby jellyfish into space — they came back as more than 60,000

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 ...
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6 Cool Space Shuttle Science Experiments

Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. The chief science legacy of NASA's space shuttle program ...
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NASA officials sent over 2,000 baby jellyfish into space. Tens of thousands more came back to Earth

Scientists wanted to find out whether humans born in space still retained their sense of gravity. So they turned to baby jellyfish ...
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OTD in Space – March 11: 1st Japanese Module & 'Dextre' Robot Launch to Space Station

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] ...
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Here's how a Wisconsin student, paper scientists got astronauts to make paper in space in 1986

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 ...