NASA Yeast Mission Will Send Living Organisms to Deep Space

The upcoming launch ofNASA’suncrewed Artemis I mission will do more than send the Orion capsule around the moon.

It will also involve sending a collection of secondary missions off into space.

In a statement last week,NASA describedspace radiation as being like a nanoscale demolition derby.

BioSentinel will monitor the vital signs of yeast, which NASA says have similar biological mechanisms to human cells.

There’s a mini biotech lab on board that will monitor the yeast cells.

NASA hopes this information will help inspire solutions for keeping humans safe in space.

This will be the latest experiment that involves blasting yeast with radiation to see what happens.

Researchersexposed yeast to simulated cosmic radiationin 2019.

NASA also plans tosend yeast to the lunar surfaceto study how microgravity and space radiation affects it there.

“It will carry living organisms farther into space than ever before.

That’s really cool!”