Along with the humans another small passenger has hitched a ride aboard the space shuttle Endeavor; a squid. While monkeys and dogs have long been space faring species, it appears this is the first ever squid.
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The reason that a baby bobtail squid is going along for Endeavor's final flight in the first place is not to study whether squid turn into superhuman monster brain sucking aliens when exposed to cosmic rays and a low gravity environment, but rather to watch and see whether a certain type of bacteria inside the squid plays naughty or nice in orbit.
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Science-fiction writer Stephen Baxter should get some notice and credit for this. I think he invented the idea of squid in space.
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