• Question: what is the most noticeable change to the bacteria you've noticed?

    Asked by 244nch29 to Delma on 8 Dec 2015.
    • Photo: Delma Childers

      Delma Childers answered on 8 Dec 2015:


      The biggest change in space is that bacteria grow faster and form bigger, stickier clumps of communities. This can be an issue in the confined area of a space station, but I’m looking at how these changes to bacteria in space can help some of them perform some useful jobs a bit better (like mining for metals).

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