{"id":1138,"date":"2019-12-15T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2020-12-22T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:15:30","slug":"spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-pest-killing-worms-and-a-smart-robot-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-pest-killing-worms-and-a-smart-robot-to-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Delivers \u2018Mighty Mice,\u2019 Pest-Killing Worms and a Smart Robot to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) December 8, 2019 \u2014\u00a0<strong>SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday,\u00a0<\/strong>bringing muscle-bound \u201cmighty mice,\u201d pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/international-space-station-spacex-deliveries.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=85\" alt=\"In this image provided by NASA, the SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at the International Space Station, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019.\" width=\"499\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>\u2018 There also are 120,000 roundworms, or nematodes of a beneficial variety,\u00a0Keep reading<\/h3>\n<h3>This story is featured at The Time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/spacex-delivers-mighty-mice-worms-robot-to-space-station\/2019\/12\/08\/02e9ac38-19ac-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html\" class=\"broken_link\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-spacex-mighty-mice-worms-robot.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Phys. org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2019\/12\/09\/business\/holiday-delivery-spacex-capsule-arrives-iss-mighty-mice-worms-robot\/#.XfV8vuhKjD4\">The Japan Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7772735\/Mighty-mice-120-000-pest-killing-worms-delivered-SpaceX-Dragon-ISS.html\">Daily Mail (UK)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/spacex-international-space-station-delivery\">Fox Business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/08\/spacex-dragon-successfully-docks-with-the-international-space-station.html\">CNBC.<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) December 8, 2019 \u2014\u00a0SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday,\u00a0bringing muscle-bound \u201cmighty mice,\u201d pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. \u2018 There also are 120,000 roundworms, or nematodes of a beneficial variety,\u00a0Keep reading This story is featured at The Time,\u00a0The Washington Post, Phys. org, The Japan Times, Daily Mail (UK), Fox Business, CNBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paA1aV-im","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}