Columbia’s Crew to Ride Herd on Wildlife in Space
Associated Press
HOUSTON —
NASA said Monday that it plans to launch the shuttle Columbia on May 22 with seven astronauts who will conduct medical tests on one another to gauge human adaptation to space.
The shuttle also will carry 30 rats and 2,400 tiny, young jellyfish that will be observed during the nine-day scientific research mission.
Mission managers set the launch date following a daylong meeting at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The countdown for the liftoff begins Saturday.
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