NRL fungal experiment launches as Artemis I payload

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2022

An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA's scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon Aug. 29. The NRL experiment will use samples of fungi to investigate effects of the deep space radiation environment outside of Earth's protective magnetosphere. "We're interested in factors that affect eukaryotic survival in space," said Jennifer Y