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Yeast failed to grow on NASA’s deep-space probe
The space agency sent BioSentinel, a small spacecraft carrying yeast, past the Moon in 2022 to study deep-space radiation. The yeast did not grow, probably because it had expired before launch, but the probe’s radiation detector still gathered data.
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