![]() ![]() Well, the worms and the squid embryos, I guess, are a little bit easier to understand than the Lego. The squid embryos were flown by a set of students that were interested in looking at how those embryos respond in microgravity. SIEGEL: What about the squid embryos? What are they doing on this mission?ĭ: So some of these organisms are flying primarily for educational purposes. And so these are, many generations later, descendents of some of those worms from Columbia. We have had some worms that flew on the Columbia mission, and then they survived the reentry and were able to be cultured. But they're very small, they're easy to culture and they're understood genetically very well.ĭ: Yes. Why send worms to space?ĭ: Worms are a really good organism for study because they have many of the same genes as higher organisms like ourselves do. She's joining us from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. SIEGEL: And we're joined now by Julie Robinson, who's in charge of all of this as NASA's program scientist for the International Space Station. And you may have heard that this mission was added to the schedule to make sure that a certain piece of high-tech equipment makes it to space, a $2 billion device called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2. SIEGEL: That is Space Shuttle Endeavour blasting off from Florida this morning on the second-to-last shuttle mission ever. zero and liftoff for the final launch of Endeavour. ![]() And here's a sound that we've grown accustomed to hearing that's on its way out. ![]()
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