• Question: could any animal live in a space station and what would the animal be?

    Asked by yah its salehaa to Tom, COLFlight, Beth, Anne, Jon on 11 Oct 2015. This question was also asked by Winnie60701, comandopro456, 8P form.
    • Photo: Columbus Flight Directors

      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 11 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      Hi all!
      Many animals have already lives in the space station. We’ve had insects like spiders, small mammals like mices and even fishes!
      The fishes are actually the ones who would probably fit better than any else, because they already live underwater, something very similar to zero gravity.
      You can check here the fishes in the space aquarium, inside the Japanese laboratory of the ISS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpWxH4_IF7E

      Bigger animals like pets would probably face more difficulties, because they would probably have a lot of problems with zero gravity. Here you can see a video of a cat who experienced zero gravity for few minutes in a parabolic airplane, it doesn’t look like having a lot of fun 😉

    • Photo: Beth Healey

      Beth Healey answered on 15 Oct 2015:

      Hi #loveturqoise!

      Some others include worms, chimps, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, spiders, fish, jellyfish and even a turtle (my favorite!)

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