NASA's new rodent residence elevates research to greater heights
Friday, May 23, 2014 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA has a housing development in the works to provide living quarters for groups of mice and rats in the prime real estate aboard the International Space Station. NASA's Rodent Research Facility, developed by scientists and engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, is a new hardware system to carry rodents safely from Earth to the orbiting laboratory and provide long-term accommodation aboard the station. The rodent research system enables researchers to study the long-term effects of microgravity—or weightlessness—on mammalian physiology.