Tuesday, February 14, 2006

NASA - SpaceResearch - The Avian Development Facility: A Successful First Flight: "A new facility for incubating quail eggs in space had an 'egg'-ceptionally successful first flight aboard the space shuttle, giving scientists new data for puzzling out the problems of bone loss - The quails have a short incubation time of 15 days, which makes them an ideal species to be used on shuttle missions," says Principal Investigator (PI) J. David Dickman, of the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, Missouri"





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