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NASA’s STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences mission launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on June 5, 1991 carrying 2,478 immature moon jellyfish polyps, and by the time it landed nine days later the population had multiplied to nearly 60,000. Led by Eastern Virginia Medical School researcher Dorothy B. Spangenberg, the experiment found that jellyfish developed entirely in […]
