Spawn of the space cockroach!
by friver ~ May 24th, 2008. Filed under: Strange Animals, Strange Research, Strange Space News.
Nadezhda, whose name in Russian means Hope, was a cockroach. She was taken up into space on an orbiting laboratory with the appropriately sci-fi-sounding name of Foton-M, where she conceived last September.
Her little baby roach-onauts were the first roaches conceived in outer space. They were said to have matured at a faster rate than normal.
And recently, a third generation of roaches, Nadezhda’s grandchildren, were born in a Russian lab. They displayed normal growth rates and are doing well, like, I suppose, all cockroaches do, wherever the heck you put ‘em.