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Tiny Crustaceans Prepare for Big Mission in Space

'Water Fleas in Space’ could be the title of a science fiction movie, but it is science fact. As Marveline Dandin reports for VOA, researchers from the University of Birmingham in England plan to send a colony of the tiny crustaceans into Earth orbit. George Putic narrates.

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