Did Jellyfish Go to Space?
Jellyfish Scientists Have Been Sending Jellyfish into Space Since the Early 90S to Test the Effects of Weightlessness on Their Development as They Mature. the...
Did NASA put jellyfish to space?
As part of NASA's first Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-1) Mission in 1991, over 2,000 moon jellyfish (funny enough) polyps were launched into space on the space shuttle Columbia. Astronauts induced these polyps to strobilate and produce baby jellyfish then monitored their development to adulthood.
What happens to a jellyfish in space?
However, the space-raised jellies exhibited “pulsing abnormalities” and ethereal rhythm and grace of jellyfish as they contract and swim was altered by living in space. The space-raised jellyfish exhibited “uncoordinated pulsing, after-twitches,spasms, and arms out of synchronization during pulsing”.
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