Man, I cannot even get the fish home from the pet store and into the tank before them going belly-up, let alone blasting them into space.

'Fish In Space!' Sounds like a bad B-movie on late-night cable television.

A fish friendly facility for the International Space Station

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I would love to understand how the lack of gravity will impact the behavior of the fish, if at all. It could be a great way to have live protein for potential long-term missions in space.

I understand we've not got the money at the moment, but we need to make it a point to invest in our greatness again, and I think that means conquering a trip to Mars.

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Lack of gravity makes astronauts' bones more brittle...I imagine that's tenfold with fish...

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It gives a whole new meaning to the term 'flying fish.'


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I don't know if that is the case. It seems to me that the bones are more brittle because we're not using them the same as we are on Earth. As in standing and such with gravity pulling on them. And while it would seem reasonable that would ring true for fish as well, I'm not so certain that is the case. The fish are still swimming in their medium and thus still have a great deal of active pressure on their bones.

Which is why I want to see the results. Is there a difference? And if there is, why?

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Send them.

I'd rather see a self-sustaining space station built, followed by an asteroid mining operation, a self-sustaining lunar mining/residence operation. Take the right steps in the right order and build the necessary infrastructure to build a Mars mission in space using primarily resources acquired in space. We have FAR more to gain from finding ways to access "local" resources than we would ever get from going to Mars. Yes, a Mars mission would be exciting, but like the Apollo missions, we don't get a whole lot from it that we can use to build on. Before you start going on about all the technological advances that the Apollo missions drove, keep in mind that had we built a self-sustaing space station instead, a lot of those same technologies (plus a slew of new ones) would have been developed. Then, we could have launched the Apollo missions from the space station, instead of Earth. The lunar lander could have been sent up in sections and assembled in orbit, giving us a much better lunar lander. A reusable transport module to take the lander and astronauts to/from the moon could have been developed, saving us substantial money. Doing things the right way, instead of the expeditious way is always better, but rarely as exciting.

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