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Animals can survive in space. At least one, anyway.
The water bear, a microorganism any mother could love,
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is going up for another round of extreme testing.
These guys survived 10 days in the cold vacuum of space in 2007. When they returned home and reproduced, they were triumphantly given ticker tape parades.
Fittingly, this little guy is going on t-shirts.
And he's getting another test. On ...