{"id":123318,"date":"2021-06-02T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/why-is-nasa-sending-2000-water-bears-and-128-squid-to-space"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:22:17","slug":"why-is-nasa-sending-2000-water-bears-and-128-squid-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/why-is-nasa-sending-2000-water-bears-and-128-squid-to-space","title":{"rendered":"Why is NASA sending 2,000 water bears and 128 squid to space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-is-nasa-sending-2000-water-bears-and-128-squid-to-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert: some aren\u2019t making it back alive.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission will carry 5000 tardigrades and 128 symbiotic squid to the ISS to study the effect of space travel on the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler alert: some aren\u2019t making it back alive. The 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission will carry 5000 tardigrades and 128 symbiotic squid to the ISS to study the effect of space travel on the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}