{"id":548,"date":"2015-01-16T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/astronauts_catch_a_dragon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:29:30","slug":"astronauts_catch_a_dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/astronauts_catch_a_dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauter f\u00e5ngar en drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lede\">\n<p>Tidigare i veckan tog astronauterna Samantha Cristoforetti och Butch Wilmore emot rymdfarkosten Dragon n\u00e4r den anl\u00e4nde till den internationella rymdstationen med f\u00e4rska f\u00f6rn\u00f6denheter och nya experiment till de sex astronauterna.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>De b\u00e5da anv\u00e4nde en gigantisk robotarm som var f\u00e4st p\u00e5 utsidan av rymdstationen f\u00f6r att f\u00e5nga upp rymdfarkosten och h\u00e5lla den p\u00e5 plats medan de lastade av den.<\/p>\n<p>Det material som Dragon levererade bestod till st\u00f6rsta delen av ingredienser till nya experiment som astronauterna ska genomf\u00f6ra, d\u00e4ribland sm\u00e5 celler som tagits fr\u00e5n fruktflugor, plattmaskar, skaldjur och till och med m\u00e4nniskor.<\/p>\n<p>En av de f\u00f6rsta sakerna som lastades av var ett experiment som kr\u00e4ver snabba reaktioner fr\u00e5n astronauterna. N\u00e4r m\u00e4nniskor befinner sig i rymden fungerar deras immunf\u00f6rsvar (det vill s\u00e4ga den del av kroppen som skyddar oss mot sjukdomar) inte lika bra som p\u00e5 jorden. F\u00f6r att hj\u00e4lpa oss att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 varf\u00f6r det \u00e4r s\u00e5 har forskare skickat med m\u00e4nskliga immunceller ombord p\u00e5 Dragon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" data-width=\"1024\" data-credit=\"ESA\" data-detail-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2015\/01\/Dragon_approaching_ISS\" data-licence=\"ESA Standard Licence\" data-licence-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Terms_and_conditions_of_use_of_images_and_videos_available_on_the_esa_website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/dragon_approaching_iss\/17890429-2-eng-GB\/Dragon_approaching_ISS.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon approaching ISS\"><figcaption>Draken n\u00e4rmar sig ISS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dessa celler har extraherats fr\u00e5n f\u00e4rskt m\u00e4nskligt blod och \u00f6verlever endast 120 timmar utanf\u00f6r blodet! Det inneb\u00e4r att astronauterna m\u00e5ste arbeta mycket snabbt f\u00f6r att hinna slutf\u00f6ra sina experiment i tid. Efter en tv\u00e5 dagars l\u00e5ng flygning med Dragon beh\u00f6vde cellerna placeras i en inkubator s\u00e5 snart som m\u00f6jligt. N\u00e4sta steg \u00e4r att utl\u00f6sa cellernas naturliga f\u00f6rsvar mot sjukdomar. D\u00e4refter kommer de att frysas ned, redo att skickas tillbaka till jorden f\u00f6r vidare analys.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauterna kommer dessutom att framkalla en simulerad infektion f\u00f6r att aktivera immunceller som h\u00e4mtats fr\u00e5n andra livsformer, d\u00e4ribland r\u00e5ttor och musslor. D\u00e4refter kommer de att unders\u00f6ka hur cellerna beter sig i tyngdl\u00f6shet, vid normal tyngdkraft p\u00e5 jorden och vid konstgjord tyngdkraft i rymden.<\/p>\n<p>Genom detta f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker de ta reda p\u00e5 om orsaken till att immunf\u00f6rsvaret saktar ner i rymden \u00e4r den l\u00e5ga tyngdkraften eller effekten av farliga kosmiska str\u00e5lar \u2013 eller kanske till och med en kombination av b\u00e5da!<\/p>\n<p><b>Rolig fakta:<\/b> Dragon-kapseln \u201cspyr verkligen eld\u201d ur de 18 raketmotorerna som anv\u00e4nds f\u00f6r att styra den!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Butch Wilmore captured the Dragon spacecraft as it arrived at the International Space Station carrying fresh supplies and new experiments for the six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/butch_and_samantha\/18246365-2-eng-GB\/Butch_and_Samantha.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Butch and Samantha","esa_banner_credit":"ESA","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2015\/01\/Butch_and_Samantha","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}