title: Rats in space: UIUC researchers design comfortable living quarters for some of the first occupants of the International Space Station.
abstract: In the near future, rats will have a place aboard the International Space Station, as they boldly go where few rodents have gone before.  But before the rats can venture into outer space, researchers need to take a hard look at the inner space of their cages.  And that's exactly what a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is doing.
authors.affiliation: Information Services Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D002498:Centrifugation; D004867:Equipment Design; D006799:Housing, Animal; D007087:Illinois; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D051381:Rats / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014495:Universities; D014893:Weightlessness