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 #1972  by odin
 
see: http://asgsb.indstate.edu/programs/2001/133.html

ASGSB 2001 Annual Meeting Abstracts
[133]

AUTONOMOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM SPACEFLIGHT RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS. J. E. Poynter, T. K. MacCallum and G. A. Anderson, Paragon Space Development Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.

--- Materially-closed, passively controlled, aquatic life support systems containing vascular plants, invertebrate animals, algae and microbes were tested in four space flight experiments with ground controls. Modifications to the system are under development for the support of developing embryo and fry of the Japanese Medaka Fish, Oryzias latipes, scheduled for launch in May 2002 on STS-107. Termed Autonomous Biological Systems (ABS), the 0.9 liter systems were completely isolated from spacecraft life support systems and cabin atmosphere contaminants, and needed minimal intervention from astronauts. The first experiment, aboard the Space Shuttle in 1996 for 10 days, was the first time that aquatic angiosperms were successfully grown in space. The second and third experiments aboard the Mir space station had 4-month durations, in 1996-97 and 1997-98, and were the first time that higher organisms (Daphnia pulex) completed their life cycles in space. The fourth experiment was launched to the International Space Station on February 26, 2001, and is ongoing at time of writing, more than four months after launch. ABS units from the Shuttle and Mir experiments contained the macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum, Lemna minor and Wolffia sp, and the invertebrate species Hyallela azteca (amphipod), Daphnia pulex, cyclopoid copapods, ostracods, Physa sp. (snail), and planaria, and returned with all species. The system on ISS contains Halocaridina rubra (shrimp), H. azteca, D. pulex, copepods, ostracods, Helisoma planorbis (snail), chlorophyta and nitrifying bacteria. The ABS are the first completely bioregenerative, closed ecological life support systems to thrive in space, demonstrating their efficacy for research in space biology and gravitational ecology, while utilizing minimal valuable resources such as power and crew time.
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 #1975  by opae ula related
 
odin wrote:see: http://asgsb.indstate.edu/programs/2001/133.html

ASGSB 2001 Annual Meeting Abstracts
[133]

AUTONOMOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM SPACEFLIGHT RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS. J. E. Poynter, T. K. MacCallum and G. A. Anderson, Paragon Space Development Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.

--- Materially-closed, passively controlled, aquatic life support systems containing vascular plants, invertebrate animals, algae and microbes were tested in four space flight experiments with ground controls. Modifications to the system are under development for the support of developing embryo and fry of the Japanese Medaka Fish, Oryzias latipes, scheduled for launch in May 2002 on STS-107. Termed Autonomous Biological Systems (ABS), the 0.9 liter systems were completely isolated from spacecraft life support systems and cabin atmosphere contaminants, and needed minimal intervention from astronauts. The first experiment, aboard the Space Shuttle in 1996 for 10 days, was the first time that aquatic angiosperms were successfully grown in space. The second and third experiments aboard the Mir space station had 4-month durations, in 1996-97 and 1997-98, and were the first time that higher organisms (Daphnia pulex) completed their life cycles in space. The fourth experiment was launched to the International Space Station on February 26, 2001, and is ongoing at time of writing, more than four months after launch. ABS units from the Shuttle and Mir experiments contained the macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum, Lemna minor and Wolffia sp, and the invertebrate species Hyallela azteca (amphipod), Daphnia pulex, cyclopoid copapods, ostracods, Physa sp. (snail), and planaria, and returned with all species. The system on ISS contains Halocaridina rubra (shrimp), H. azteca, D. pulex, copepods, ostracods, Helisoma planorbis (snail), chlorophyta and nitrifying bacteria. The ABS are the first completely bioregenerative, closed ecological life support systems to thrive in space, demonstrating their efficacy for research in space biology and gravitational ecology, while utilizing minimal valuable resources such as power and crew time.

Nice find!
 #1977  by odin
 
These shrimp have done so many amazing things, way more then i could ever achieve :blush: :tongue: :smile:
 #1979  by odin
 
I could try and pester NASA and ask them via email?, if not get on twitter and find some of the astronauts who have been on board and ask if they noticed :lol:
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 #1982  by opae ula related
 
odin wrote:I could try and pester NASA and ask them via email?, if not get on twitter and find some of the astronauts who have been on board and ask if they noticed :lol:
i just tweeted the question. =)