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Us experiments flown on the soviet biosatellite cosmos 2044
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Organization | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Abstract | Cosmos 2044 was launched on September 15, 1989, containing radiation dosimetry experiments and a biological payload including two young male rhesus monkeys, ten adult male Wistar rats, insects, amphibians, protozoa, cell cultures, worms, plants and fish. The biosatellite was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union for a mission duration of 14 days, as planned. The major research objectives were: (1) Study adaptive response mechanisms of mammals during flight; (2) Study physiological mechanisms underlying vestibular, motor system and brain function in primates during early and later adaptation phases; (3) Study the tissue regeneration processes of mammals; (4) Study the development of single-celled organisms, cell cultures and embryos in microgravity; and (5) Study radiation characteristics during the mission and investigate doses, fluxes and spectra of cosmic radiation for various types of shielding. American and Soviet specialists jointly conducted 29 experiments on this mission including extensive preflight and postflight studies with rhesus monkeys, and tissue processing and cell culturing postflight. Biosamples and data were subsequently transferred to the United States. The U.S. responsibilities for this flight included development of flight and ground-based hardware, the preparation of rat tissue sample procedures, the verification testing of hardware and experiment procedures, and the postflight analysis of biospecimens and data for the joint experiments. The U.S. investigations included four primate experiments, 24 rat experiments, and one radiation dosimetry experiment. Three scientists investigated tissue repair during flight for a subgroup of rats injured preflight by surgical intervention. A description of the Cosmos 2044 mission is presented in this report including preflight, on-orbit and postflight activities. The flight and ground-based bioinstrumentation which was developed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. is also described, along with the associated preflight testing of the U.S. hardware. |
| File Size | 24297371 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19960028989 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6446jv05 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-09-01 |
| Publisher Institution | Ames Research Center |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Content Type | Text |
