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Shuttle brings space-grown strep bacteria back for study

When the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center Aug. 21, microbiologist David Niesel was waiting by the runway, looking forward to a reunion with some of its passengers. The space travelers Niesel was meeting weren't astronauts. They were Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, members of a species commonly found in the human upper respiratory tract but in this case riding in sealed experimental containers in the shuttle's mid-deck.

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