'It will carry living organisms farther into space than ever before.'
"It will carry living organisms farther into space than ever before."NASA's Artemis 1 Moon mission, launching later this month, will contain living samples that will be launched into deep space — because Terran life forms trapped beyond the stars is exactly what we need right now.
Freaky as it may sound, the samples will just be yeast. Still, the hope is that the experiment will provide unprecedented data on the effects of deep space on Terran life forms. "BioSentinel is the first of its kind," Matthew Napoli, BioSentinel project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said aHundreds of yeast strains are set to be carried aboard a briefcase-sized satellite as part of the BioSentinel experiment. If all goes according to plan, the Artemis 1 mission will launch on NASA's
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