lander Russian satellite “Bion-M1″, which was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 19, has returned to Earth with a significant loss – during the 30-day experiment, lost most of the experimental animals, it happened because of the failure of equipment. However, scientists claim that the experiment can be considered successful, they were able to perform almost all the planned program.
“This is not a failure of the experiment. Some private scientific problems because the lost animals, we have not decided, but in general, we believe that the experiment was successful. uzhali We” appetites “of each researcher, began to decrease the amount of material being transmitted to various studies, and we managed to keep the entire program, “quoted the deputy head of the project Yevgeny Ilyin RIA” Novosti “.
He explained that in the present study involved about 20 institutions. Under the agreement, all they had to get the organs and tissues of experimental animals, so the raw material had to be divided into parts, “do not give all the heart, and part of the heart.” Only through such a “carve-up” and managed to save the program. “Natural death of animals in zero gravity flight envisaged by the organizers, but it should not exceed 5%.
scientists who came to inspect the lander, which landed on Sunday in the Orenburg region, found that killing all eight Mongolian gerbils, mice, and much of the black “line” mice: of the 45 returned to Earth alive, only 16 individuals. It is known that rodents are killed because of freelance work equipment. Ilyin promised that he would set up a commission that would investigate the situation. He noted that the project has been used “sophisticated instrumentation, automation it may not work properly”.
in space were killed and all the cichlid fish, participated in the experiment, prepared by German experts from the University of Hohenheim. They also lost due to equipment failure, Ilyin said that “the Russian side’s not my fault, it was a German aquarium, he also passed out”.
Geckos traveled into space through donations
In addition
mice and fish in the experiment involved geckos, freshwater crustaceans, snails, algae, bacteria, plant seeds – more than a hundred different living organisms. It was learned that some of them, in particular the 15 geckos, flying into space by private donations, reported by the project manager Sergey Saveliev.
“The funds allocated from the state budget through the IBMP directly on the project,” Gecko “, was about five times less than is needed – two million rubles (including salary) instead of eight million. complete success occurred only because the another 80% was invested in the project by outside organizations and individuals. These were voluntary private anonymous donations of people who support the Russian science “- said Savelyev.
first satellite launch “Bion-M” was held in 1973, since the experiment was repeated about once every two years. During this flight, which was the 12th in a row for the first time, scientists were able to study the physiological, not only during orbital flight, but also on the most critical and complex stages – during start and landing.
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