NASA Sent Thousands of Jellyfish to Space in 1991. The Babies Born Up There Couldn’t Handle Earth
NASA’s STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences mission launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on June 5, 1991 carrying 2,478 immature moon jellyfish polyps, and by the time it landed nine days later the population had multiplied to nearly 60,000. Led by Eastern Virginia Medical School researcher Dorothy B. Spangenberg, the experiment found that jellyfish developed entirely in […]
This article recounts NASA's 1991 STS-40 Spacelab mission, which carried 2,478 moon jellyfish polyps aboard Space Shuttle Columbia; the population grew to nearly 60,000 over nine days. Led by researcher Dorothy B. Spangenberg, the experiment found that jellyfish born in space struggled to orient themselves back on Earth. The story is a historical science retrospective with no connection to crypto markets, tokens, or trading activity.
