Space Station Live: Killing Bugs in Space

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with Luis Zea, a scientist at BioServe Space Technologies, about efforts to use the weightless environment of the International Space Station to better understand how and why certain bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. The problem of drug-resistant bacteria on
Earth gets worse every year, and scientists are taking advantage of the space station to advance their knowledge as they fight the so-called superbugs.

Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern.

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[trevorthompson]

Woot for continuing space station cooperation till 2024! Please continue cooperating for the sake of humanity!

[MegaFPVFlyer]

I wonder what would happen if you let a bird loose in the space station

[MOREENGINEERING]

Just watched a few of NASA's videos on long duration space flight (Mars trips and extended duration ISS). One thing I have noticed is that, well, Bruce Willis was right!
NASA DOES have "people sitting around thinking shit up"!
Awesome stuff NASA!
You and your partners keep up the amazing work!! ;-)

[Chamelionroses]

Microbes are interesting...Though with overuse of antibiotics there are superbugs on earth ...hopefully there is better ways than antibiotics alone in the future.

[jimhendricks]

It's all okay. There are moths (bugs/flies) on the ISS. Check it out.

[AlexSDU]

I was hoping for some bug killing session in space, in the video.
Was very disappointed.

[macieksoft]

The most important bugs in space are the software bugs. If you got some you are in trouble ;-)

[neilruedlinger]

If bacteria such as e. coli are 41% smaller in a microgravity environment, what would happen in a lower gravity environment such as the Moon or Mars; would they grow somewhere in between the size in microgravity and under Earth gravity?

What would happen in a higher gravity environment than Earth's, would they grow larger than on Earth?