In 1998, NASA sent oyster toadfish into space on Space Shuttle Columbia; over 16 days in orbit, researchers studied how their balance systems adapted to microgravity

Discover how NASA's 1998 Toadfish mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia revealed groundbreaking insights into the ...
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Space creature or humble potato? What NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s latest photo actually shows

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, recently shared a picture of an odd, purple, egg-shaped object with “tentacles” from the International Space Station (ISS) on the social media platform X. While you could be ...

In 1973, NASA sent two fish into space to test their swimming ability in zero gravity; they initially swam in loops but later used light as cue to move normally after 21 days

In 1973, NASA sent two mummichog fish and 50 eggs aboard Skylab 3 to study how weightlessness affected their sense of balance ...