Published on July 13, 2017
NASA Commentator Amiko Kauderer talks with Dr. Cherie Oubre, a microbiologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, about the Microbiome experiment on the International Space Station, which is looking at how the stresses of a space flight impact the human immune system and the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body. Researchers will study the samples taken from different parts of the bodies of station crew members before, during and after their flight, and from different parts of the station itself, to learn how the extreme environment alters the microbiome and thus the health of astronauts during long space flights.
