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    Biosatellite 2, also known as Biosat 2 or Biosatellite B, was the second mission in NASA's Biosatellite program for biological research. It was launched...
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    NASA's Biosatellite program was a series of three uncrewed artificial satellites to assess the effects of spaceflight, especially radiation and weightlessness...
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    1969 in its Biosatellite program. Other notable biosatellites include: Bion space program of the Soviet Union The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Orbiting Frog...
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    heliopause. Biosatellite program Biosatellite 1, launched December 1966, completed Biosatellite 2, launched September 1967, completed Biosatellite 3, launched...
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    Biosatellite 3, also known as Biosat 3 and Biosatellite D, was a third and final mission in the Biosatellite program. It was launched on a Delta-N rocket...
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    Biocosmos, is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine. The Soviet biosatellite program began in 1966 with Kosmos 110, and...
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    impact of radiation on life. Brine shrimp cysts were flown on the U.S. Biosatellite 2, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 missions, and on the Russian Bion-3 (Cosmos...
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  • pad 17A on 14 December 1966 at 19:20 GMT, with Biosatellite 1. At 22:04 on 7 September 1967, Biosatellite 2 was launched from pad B on the second Delta G...
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    Biosatellite 1, also known as Biosat 1 and Biosatellite A, was the first mission in NASA's Biosatellite program. It was launched on December 14, 1966...
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    The two-stage vehicle was used for two launches: Biosatellite 1 on 14 December 1966 and Biosatellite 2 on 7 September 1967. The Delta J used a larger Thiokol...
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    Liberty ship freighters during World War II The United States launched Biosatellite 2 from Cape Kennedy, with a cargo of insects and other life forms to study...
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  • The two-stage vehicle was used for two launches: Biosatellite 1 on 14 December 1966 and Biosatellite 2 on 7 September 1967. The Delta J used a larger Thiokol...
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    space flight by dogs.[citation needed] The US launched Biosatellite I in 1966 and Biosatellite I/II in 1967 with fruit flies, parasitic wasps, flour beetles...
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    Sputnik 2 (Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputʲnʲɪk], Russian: Спутник-2, Satellite 2), or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 (PS-2, Russian: Простейший Спутник 2, Simplest...
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    Results". Master Catalog Search. NASA NSSDC. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2010. McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathon's...
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    was lost at sea after landing. Bonny, a pig-tailed macaque, flew on Biosatellite 3, a mission which lasted from June 29 to July 8, 1969. This was the...
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    Mars Gravity Biosatellite: Engineering, Science, and Education. 58th International Astronautical Congress. "The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Is Closing...
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  • SLC-3W   Vandenberg SLC-10W   Tanegashima SLC-N   Johnston LE-1   Johnston LE-2 10 20 30 40 50 1960 '61 '62 '63 '64 '65 '66 '67 '68 '69   Success   Partial...
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    Launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 25 November 1975, at 14:00:00 UTC. The biosatellite was recovered near Amankaragaj, in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union, on 15 December...
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  • prolonged space flights and after return to Earth. He initiated the Cosmos biosatellite nonhuman primate program, which has been highly successful since its...
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  • Society announced the Translife Mission, later renamed to the Mars Gravity Biosatellite.: 99–100  The mission aimed to study the effect of Martian-level gravity...
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    USSR on the Sputnik 9 biosatellite of March 9, 1961 – with a successful recovery. China also launched and recovered a biosatellite in 1990 which included...
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    means the capsule experiences high forces on reentry, up to 8 to 9g. Biosatellite Bion BIOPAN Animals in space "Foton". ESA. Archived from the original...
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    engineer Jim Cantrell as a technical adviser for the society's Mars Gravity Biosatellite project.: 30–31  From there, Musk, Cantrell, along with a few other engineers...
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    known if Martian gravity would have a similar effect. The Mars Gravity Biosatellite was a proposed project designed to learn more about what effect Mars'...
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  • Kosmos 96 - failed Venus landing probe mission Kosmos 110 - first Soviet biosatellite (contained biological experiments) Kosmos 111 - failed first Moon orbiting...
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    CORONA (satellite) (redirect from KH-2)
    orbit, occurring just one day before the launch of Korabl-Sputnik 2, a biosatellite that took into orbit the two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka...
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    orbital space flight several times—first by the USSR on the Sputnik 9 biosatellite of 9 March 1961, with a successful recovery. The naked mole rat is the...
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    technological change!" Beginning in 1967, NASA successfully began its Biosatellite program that initially took frog eggs, amoeba, bacteria, plants and mice...
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    involving Bangladesh, China, and joint Soviet-American efforts, including Biosatellite II, Skylab 3 and 4, Apollo-Soyuz, Sputnik, Vostok, and Zond. Initial...
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