Worms in Space: Testing Life Support for Moon Bases

0:00Scientists launched tiny worms to the International Space Station to figure out how space messes with living things, aiming to keep astronauts healthy on long trips. These one-millimeter nematodes, called sea elegans, rode up from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday and a setup called the PetriPod, funded by the Space Agency. The pod has 12 chambers that mimic life support, holding air, temperature, and pressure even in space's vacuum, built by the University of. Lester, and led by the University of Exeter, a robotic arm will stick it outside the station for up to 15 weeks of radiation, vacuum, and zero gravity, while researchers watch the worms, glow and health from Earth through cameras. This could unlock how biology adapts up there, paving the way for moon bases or Mars missions as the team gears up for the first orbital picks. That wraps Lester News today, brought to you with AI.