Nasa to send Tardigrades and Dark Baby Squid to ISS by Space X Falcon 9 | What are Tardigrades? |

NASA is set to send around 5,000 tardigrades and 128 glow-in-the-dark baby squids into space. The animals will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) next week as part of SpaceX’s 22nd cargo resupply mission. SpaceX is set to launch the microscopic critters onboard a Falcon 9 rocket on June 3 at 1:29 p.m EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.