One experiment caused a rare celebration when our workers examined it in the reconstruction hangar. Searchers found a thermos bottle-sized container from an experiment involving a colony of nematodes—small roundworms. The container had been inside one of the lockers in the crew module, so it was relatively well protected until the locker hit the ground. We were amazed to see living nematodes inside the container when it was opened in the reconstruction hangar. Nematodes have a short life span. Because this finding was several weeks after the accident, these were likely the descendants of the
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