Fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, such as those planned for use as model organisms for variable gravity studies aboard the International Space Station.
Credits: NASA
Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) today announced 6 boxes of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) to study the impact of weightlessness on the heart. The fruit flies are scheduled to launch on June 1, 2017, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and will travel to the ISS via a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Living in zero gravity is known to negatively impact the body’s cardiovascular system...
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