Assisting NASA in biology mission, Stanford helps E. coli visit the final frontier

Banished from kitchen counters, E. coli, albeit a harmless variety, are taking to space. On Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, bacteria hitchhiked into low-Earth orbit aboard an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket that took off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in an experiment to test the effects of space on living organisms.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news88275281.html">Assisting NASA in biology mission, Stanford helps E. coli visit the final frontier</a></p> <p>Banished from kitchen counters, E. coli, albeit a harmless variety, are taking to space. On Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, bacteria hitchhiked into low-Earth orbit aboard an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket that took off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in an experiment to test the effects of space on living organisms.</p>