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Worms are Being Sent Into Space in an Effort to Understand Muscle Loss in Microgravity Thousands of worms are being blasted into orbit as part of a project to understand how muscle atrophy occurs.

RocketSTEM Humans didn’t evolve to deal with the unique conditions of space travel. Credit: Bluedharma/Flickr, CC BY-ND Mars has garnered a bunch of headlines recently with the arrival of the first probes from the United Arab Emirates and China in orbit around the planet, along with the arrival of NASA’s Perseverance rover mere days later. It also was a hot topic previously when NASA revealed it had discovered water on the Red Planet. And it lingered in the public mind after the release of the 2015 sci-fi blockbuster The Martian starring Matt Damon. Both the book and the film cover broad ...

English By VOA News Share on Facebook Print this page   Flight Engineers Astronaut Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover are conducting the space walks, which will complete upgrades to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Columbus Module, among other tasks.     A posting to the ISS Twitter account explains the antenna rigging for the “Bartolomeo” science payloads platform outside the Columbus module and the communications links will allow high-bandwidth communication with European ground stations, as well as further research in Earth observat...