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How to Coax the Rats to Move Around in Zero Gravity

We had really good hippocampal cells when we loaded them into the cargo bay of this base shuttle. But four days later, it was when our experiment was scheduled and all the forces have lifted off. We didn't know what happened. So we had to train the astronauts to actually move the electrodes to try to find the proper cells again. And then were you communicating with them as they were doing it? Not directly, but we weren't in communication through their NASA comms. If they had any problems, they'd let you know. Right. They would go down and then the message would be relate to us and then we would give advice back at all.

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