Posted on 12/21/2021 3:36:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
40 students across Victoria are participating in a program that will deliver yoghurt cultures to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, via a SpaceX rocket.
The rocket, a Falcon 9, is set to launch at 5.06am US eastern time on Tuesday – just after 9pm Australian eastern time – from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A team of six students at Haileybury, an independent high school in Melbourne, are working with Swinburne researchers to study the effects of microgravity on bacteria. They hope to perfect the conditions under which astronauts could make their own yoghurt.
A total of 36 vials will be sent into space, containing frozen milk and strains of yoghurt-producing “good” bacteria, which will be defrosted by astronauts on the ISS.
The Haileybury team is sending 20 vials to study what yoghurt will be produced depending on the milk type used – either full cream cow’s milk or soy milk – and how long it ferments for – either 24, 48 or 72 hours.
Samples will return to Australia about 1.5 months after they were first sent off.
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Now if only they could walk out of their own houses 🤪
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