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#26 2007-08-31 05:58:15
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Re: STS-118 Endeavour
Endeavour returns to the OPF for post flight inspection after landing 21 Aug 2007
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#27 2007-09-24 20:41:08
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Re: STS-118 Endeavour
We have a problem in that Germs taken to space come back deadlier
The germ: Salmonella, best known as a culprit of food poisoning. The trip: Space Shuttle STS-115, September 2006. The reason: Scientists wanted to see how space travel affects germs, so they took some along — carefully wrapped — for the ride. The result: Mice fed the space germs were three times more likely to get sick and died quicker than others fed identical germs that had remained behind on Earth.
After 25 days, 40 percent of the mice given the Earth-bound salmonella were still alive, compared with just 10 percent of those dosed with the germs from space. And the researchers found it took about one-third as much of the space germs to kill half the mice, compared with the germs that had been on Earth.
The researchers found 167 genes had changed in the salmonella that went to space.
Wow ...such an amount of change in something that should have been unchanged for the period of time that it was exposed to space radiation...
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#28 2007-10-16 07:27:49
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Re: STS-118 Endeavour
As a result of this mission the STS-118 Crew Inspires Local D.C. Students
The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour did talk to the middle school students about their flight to the International Space Station and about careers in science, math and technology at an event hosted at the Department of Education and supported by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education.
Challenger Center Webcast: Students Help Astronauts to Breathe Easier on the Moon design a mini-greenhouse for use by future astronauts living and working on the moon.
http://www.challenger.org/clc/sts118webcast.cfm
Challenger Center is pleased to announce a series of live interactive chats with NASA expert space farmers on October 16th, 23rd, and 30th at 2:00 (ET) giving students and teachers the opportunity to discuss their ideas for growing plants on a future lunar base.
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