"Pulsing Abnormalities": In The 1990s, NASA Sent 2,000 Jellyfish To Space. 60,000 Came Back.

"Pulsing Abnormalities": In The 1990s, NASA Sent 2,000 Jellyfish To Space. 60,000 Came Back.

Compared to the jellyfish that remained on Earth, the moon jellies had their fair share of problems.

Why NASA sent 2,478 jellyfish to space to study gravity

In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and sent aboard the space shuttle Columbia. By the time the mission ended nine days later, the number had exploded, with tens of thousands of jellyfish having developed in orbit. The experiment had nothing to do with marine biology, though. Researchers …