Not exact matches
A team from Brookhaven Academy in Mississippi will determine
whether the bacteria Ralstonia eutropha maintains its ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) in
microgravity.
Students from Riebli Elementary and Mark West Charter School in California examine
whether Triops longicaudatus, or tadpole shrimp, could be grown in
microgravity as a food source for long - term missions.
Ninth - graders from Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy in Washington, focused their attention on
whether radish roots and shoots will grow differently in
microgravity.
Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how
microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) and
whether any changes would persist after the worms returned to earth.
AFEx will test
whether under conditions of
microgravity Indy flies exhibit less change in behavior than wildtype or «normal» control flies.