Engines satellite "Bion" to "zoo" on board began braking - Reuters

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MOSCOW, May 19 – RIA Novosti. Engines biosatellites “Bion-M” are included on the brake, the landing crew capsule “Bion-1M” with Mongolian gerbils, mice, geckos, fish, cichlids, microorganisms , plants and artificial meteorites in orbit since April 19, is scheduled for 7.12 MSK in the Orenburg region, told RIA Novosti the Mission Control Center (MCC).

“Engines are included in the braking MSK 6.13. expected that after the passage of the dense layers of the atmosphere of the Earth at an altitude of about 10 kilometers in 7.01 MSK will open the parachute. Landing capsule is scheduled approximately 82 kilometers north of Orenburg, near the village of Buranovo at 7.12 MSK “- said the source.

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month of space travel on the “Bion’s” return to Earth, in particular the eight Mongolian gerbils. For this kind of rodent is the second flight into space – gerbils were already flying in orbit for two weeks in 2007 on board the satellite “Foton-M3.” Furthermore, in the first space 45 sent “genetically pure” mice – so-called “linear mice.” Their genome is carefully controlled so that scientists can detect any genetic changes. From orbit and return geckos lizards, fish, micro-organisms and plants.

Orenburg region