Ten Mice Didn’t Survive Space Flight in Bion-M No. 2 Capsule

MOSCOW. Sept 19 (Interfax) – Ten of the 75 mice that went on an orbital flight in the scientific capsule Bion-M No.2 did not survive the space experiment, Academician Oleg Orlov, director of the Institute for Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said.

“As for the results: we lost ten of the 75 mice. With such result, we are all satisfied, primarily scientists and the flight organizers. The cause of these animals’ death is different. As these are male mice, aggressive animals, with tough intragroup conflicts. The data, of course, didn’t disappear, we