Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
Space Shuttle Atlantis took to the skies this week, carrying thousands of microscopic worms to be used in muscle-degeneration research. We already know these worms can handle spaceflight, because in 2003, another group of them survived a fall from orbit. The worms aboard the current Atlantis mission, which launched on Monday, hail from Britain’s University…
