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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Babies born in space.
Summary: Chicks in Space
Message-ID: <450@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 23:11:51 GMT
References: <218100013@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <218100013@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
>    I saw a report recently that had a Get-Away-Special mission that was
> sending up half of a set of ``identical'' chicken eggs, the other half staying
> on the ground as a control group. While not exactly human development, I'd
> say it's certainly a first step in such research.
> 
> Alan M. Carroll          "And then you say,

Yes, I heard about this recently. I believe they went up on todays launch
of Discovery [today is March 13, 1989]. 

But what I wonder about in these experiments is how do they know that the
results they get back on the space eggs are the result of the micro-gravity
environment and not some damage caused by the hi-g blast off and shaking?

If you hatch scrambled eggs do you get scrambled chickens? :-)




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