# Space Station Live- Killing Bugs in Space

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with Luis Zea, a scientist at BioServe Space Technologies, about efforts to use the weightless environment of the International Space Station to better understand how and why certain bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. The problem of drug-resistant bacteria on

Earth gets worse every year, and scientists are taking advantage of the space station to advance their knowledge as they fight the so-called superbugs.

Watch Space Station Live, weekdays at 11am eastern. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: NASA Johnson
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Station_Live-_Killing_Bugs_in_Space.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Johnson
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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