Why Growing Useful Bacteria in Space is Harder Than It Looks

https://issnationallab.org/upward/why-growing-useful-bacteria-in-space-is-harder-than-it-looks/ Place a living thing in a hostile environment and its usual biological cycles unravel, giving way to survival and change. A desert plant curls inward to save water. A deep-sea fish gains the ability to glow. In the ruins of Chornobyl, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, blackened fungi creep across reactor walls, absorbing radiation that should kill them. And in space, microbes—among the smallest organisms ever sent beyond Earth—redirect their energy, dialing down routine cellular work and ramping up intricate survival responses to withstand microgravity The condition of perceived weightlessness created when an object is in free fall, for example when an object is in orbital motion. Microgravity alters many observable phenomena within the physical and life sciences, allowing scientists to study things in ways not possible on Earth. The International Space Station provides access to a persistent microgravity environment. .