A recent experiment has shown that a germ that causes food poisoning can be three times more dangerous in space than on the ground. The experiment took place on NASA's STS 115 space shuttle mission that was launched in September of 2006. In this experiment a microbiologist from ASU put Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria into space and simultaneously started growing Salmonella Typhimurium back on earth at Kennedy Space Center. The experiment showed that the bacteria and space grew about three times faster. What does this mean for long 600 day humaned missions to mars? Lets just hope no one gets sick.
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