Table 2.

Number of whole worms before and after 1 month in a sealed tube, either while traveling to space and back or left on Earth. Worms which have traveled to space have shown spontaneous fissioning, while Earth‐only control samples have not. This is considered to be due to the slightly higher temperature the worms in space were maintained in during the mission

Start n	4	5	6	8	10
Earth	4	5	6	8	10
Space	7	7	10	14	13
Space/Earth	1.75×	1.4×	1.67×	1.75×	1.3×