{"id":85477,"date":"2018-12-04T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-wormy-passengers-are-too-old-for-their-planned-experiments"},"modified":"2018-12-04T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:43:42","slug":"spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-wormy-passengers-are-too-old-for-their-planned-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-wormy-passengers-are-too-old-for-their-planned-experiments","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX delay may mean 36,000 wormy passengers are too old for their planned experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-wormy-passengers-are-too-old-for-their-planned-experiments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of microscopic worms will be launched into space \u2014 wriggling around in SpaceX\u2019s next cargo shipment to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon.<\/p>\n<p>But the launch, which was planned for today (Dec. 4), has been postponed to tomorrow, and scientists are now worried that the worms will be a day \u201ctoo old\u201d for some of the planned experiments, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-devon-46438759\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well in spite of the delay, these tiny but mighty creatures with muscle structures very similar to that of humans, might help us understand why and how astronauts lose muscle mass in space. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/11479-photos-space-tourists-pioneers-spaceflights.html?_ga=2.151022969.132513872.1543847622-1565432887.1517496773\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: The First Space Tourists<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-wormy-passengers-are-too-old-for-their-planned-experiments\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/spacex-delay-may-mean-36000-...xperiments<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of microscopic worms will be launched into space \u2014 wriggling around in SpaceX\u2019s next cargo shipment to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon. But the launch, which was planned for today (Dec. 4), has been postponed to tomorrow, and scientists are now worried that the worms will be a day \u201ctoo old\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85477","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}