Sunday, May 19, 2013

Animals on board the Russian space capsule Bion-M land on the ... - RTVE

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voles (voles) Mongols, 45 mice, 15 and 20 snails newts have landed aboard the Bion-M capsule in the Orenburg region, southern Russia, after having spent a month in space, report Russian news agencies.

mission, which lasted 30 days, were undergone more than 70 different biomedical studies space . Several helicopters and rescue vehicles went to the landing site where he plans to install a mobile laboratory to prepare the “space tourists” to move to Moscow.

was scheduled to begin this medical research same Sunday in the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems (IPMB), as revealed by the director of the institute, Yevgeny Ilyin.

Many scientists from different countries such as U.S.. UU., France, Kazakhstan, Germany and Ukraine awaited the arrival of the animals in the Bion-M study your health on the IPMB after space travel.

“Some animals will be transferred to foreign scientific centers,” said Ilyin, adding that the “deep analysis” of “biological material” last long . “In regard to studies on the impact of weightlessness on genes, it would take months,” he said.

ship experiments took place in two stages: the first was to study the influence of weightlessness on intracellular processes of the animals, while the second analyzed biological alterations under the impact of ionizing coming from space.

Another goal of the experiment was to test the theory of panspermia , a doctrine that germs are everywhere organized beings do not develop until finding favorable circumstances for it.

To this end, scientists have installed, in the coating of the capsule, basalt plates with holes filled with spores of bacteria types.

Bion-M, equipped with dozens of video cameras that monitor the condition of the animals and their adaptation to weightlessness from a ground control center, weighs 6.3 pounds, while the weight of scientific equipment onboard is 900 kilograms.

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