Space Fish: ISS Aquatic Habitat Delivered By HTV-3 68
astroengine writes "Yes, it's the moment we've all (secretly) been waiting for: Fish In Space! But before you go getting too excited and start asking the big questions — like: if there's a bubble in a microgravity aquarium, what happens if the fish falls into it? Let's ponder that for a minute... — it's worth pointing out that the fish aren't actually in space right now (their habitat has just been delivered to the space station by the unmanned Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle 'Kounotori 3') and this fishy experiment isn't just to see how fish enjoy swimming upside down, there's some serious science behind it."
Re:Looking forward to this one. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Looking forward to this one. (Score:5, Informative)
In particular, goldfish [archive.org] and newts flew on STS-65 (1994). Not sure if complete life-cycle experiments have been done before. Some quick searching turns up this speculation [google.com] (Google Books preview) as of 2003 that fish will soon become the first vertebrate to live a complete life cycle in space.