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DThe fish eggs,all 200 of them,were settled and ready to go.The ground crew had counted the eggscarefully,and sealed them tightly within a plate filled precisely to the edge with seawaterThe countdown,and then-ignition ()For two full minutes,the precious eggs suffered aviolent shaking as the rocket's engines exploded to life,and then rise to the heavens.These eggs wereon their way to low Earth orbit.Next stop:the moon.Well,they haven't actually left yet.But after a recent simulation (designed to re-create theintense shaking of a typical takeoff,researchers in France found that the eggs survived.It's a crucialdiscovery in the progress of the Lunar Hatch,a program that aims to determine whether astronautscould successfully raise fish on a future moon base.Finally,Cyrille Przybyla,an aquaculture (researcher at the French Research Institutefor Exploitation of the Sea who led the research,dreams of designing a lunar fish farm that uses wateralready on the moon to help feed residents of the future Moon Village set to be established by theEuropean Space Agency (ESA).Przybyla's hope is to offer lunar residents fresh,inviting,protein-rich fish-not just packets offreeze-dried food."I proposed the idea to send eggs,not fish,because eggs are very strong,"he says.Besides,Przybyla suggests there will be other benefits for astronauts who may one day find themselvesraising animals in space."From the psychological point of view,it's better to have a reminder of theEarth-you have a garden;you have a tank with fish,"he says.Designing self-contained and self-supporting systems for food production beyond the Earth will becrucial for future space exploration programs,says Luke Roberson,a researcher at NASA's KennedySpace Center in Florida.And he says Przybyla's study is "a great first step"toward showing thataquaculture is a practical part of that future.32.What is Paragraph 2 about?A.An imagination.B.An experience.C.An experiment.D.An adventure.33.Why do the researchers want to send the eggs to the moon?A.To offer eggs to astronauts as food.B.To test whether the eggs are strong.C.To promote aquaculture on the earth.D.To see the possibility of raising fish on the moon.34.What's the psychological advantage of raising animals in space?A.It can get rid of loneliness.B.It diversifies the space food.C.It gives astronauts something to do.D.It helps astronauts remember the Earth.35.What's Luke Roberson's attitude to the plan to raise fish on the moon?A.DoubtfulB.Favorable.C.Disapproving.D.Neutral.
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