Worms in Space - More info

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f0c04bed-69ed-4c4f-8424-07cfe501a20c&k=63148

From the Vancouver Sun:

Tiny space worms coming home to B.C. next week

Glenn Bohn, Vancouver SunPublished: Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Hundreds of thousands of little worms that have been flying around in space reproducing might help pave the way for humans in a similar endeavour -- the flying part, at least.

For six months the worms -- each about one millimetre long -- have been among the live cargo at the International Space Station, successfully reproducing for about 25 generations while being subjected to radiation from outer space.

My Uncle Sent Worms to Space!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16038089

My uncle, Dr. Robert Johnsen is headed to Cape Canaveral to pick up some worms he and his colleagues sent into space. Bob is a genetic biologist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. They are studying generational effects of space radiation, and since the worms multiply so quickly, they can easily study the 28th generation of the original worms sent to space months ago.