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Water bears to Space Station
April 28 , 2025
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- ISRO is all set to be part of experiments aboard the International Space Station as Shubhanshu Shukla preps to fly aboard the Axiom-4 mission.
- Shukla will pilot the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS to become the first Indian ever live and work at the Space Station.
- He will be conducting several experiments during his stay and one of the most important among them is the Voyager Tardigrades experiment.
- The experiments will investigate the revival, survival, and the reproduction of the tardigrades in ISS.
- Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are tiny, water-dwelling micro-animals famous for their incredible survival abilities.
- These creatures are usually between 0.3 mm to 0.5 mm long, so a microscope is needed to see them.
- Tardigrades can be found almost everywhere on Earth, including mosses, lichens, soil, leaf litter, freshwater, marine environments, high mountains, deep seas, hot springs, and even polar ice.
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