Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches With Some Slimy Passengers

Meera Dolasia
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:00 -0800

On Monday, Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying with it, six astronauts, 30,000 pounds of pumps, numerous tanks of nitrogen, ammonia and oxygen and . . . . . . 4,000 slithery worms!