An experiment aboard NASA's new moon rocket may have significant implications for humans in space
hen NASA’s massive Space Launch System rocket takes off on its first, uncrewed journey around the moon, currently scheduled for Aug. 29, most people will be paying attention to the 32-story machine itself—the largest rocket ever launched. Far fewer will be giving much thought to the yeast going along for the ride. But the little yeast are a very big deal.
Some of the instruments aboard BioSentinel will measure the intensity of the radiation, while far smaller, finer ones—known as microfluidics cards, built to study extremely small amounts of liquids—will monitor the welfare of the yeast, sending the data they gather back to Earth. Yeast are hardly people, but when it comes to measuring such biological processes as growth, death, and DNA damage, they are a pretty good proxy.
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