Orbiting animals

What 6 animals on the ISS teach us about life in space

by Robin Bea
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Even as people are pondering long-term human settlements on other worlds, there’s a lot we don’t know about how life away from Earth affects living things.

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To help make our next steps off the planet smoother, NASA and other space agencies have long used animals to test the effects of space.

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