Space station gets feast for Easter

A private cargo ship has delivered 40 mice, flying robots and an Easter feast to the International Space Station.

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule holds numerous science experiments, including 40 mice taking part in a tetanus vaccination study, and three free-flying robots designed to assist astronauts. Nasa also packed more than 800 meals for the six ISS residents. Northrop Grumman named this Cygnus the SS Roger Chaffee after the youngest of the three astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire in 1967. Chaffee was the only one who never made it to space.