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Mike Wehner
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Unless you're incredibly fit, smart, and young, there's very little chance you'd even make it into NASA's astronaut training program, much less have an opportunity to fly to the International Space Station. That's a fact that's going to sting a little bit more when you learn that a bunch of mice — yep, rodents — just had the time of their lives, traveling to the ISS in early December and now returning to Earth this week.
The mice weren't there on vacation, of course, but were part of an experiment to test how muscles are impacted by the microgravity environment of the space station. These so-called "Mighty Mice" were genetically modified to have enhanced muscle growth, which scientists believed would help them study the effects of microgravity on their muscles and bone structure.
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‘Mighty Mice’ that traveled to the space station are now back on Earth originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 19:14:36 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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