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Experiments of new type with bio-objects help to prepare human space mission to Mars. Experts of the Institute of Bio-Medical Problems (IBMP) simulate the space radiation environment in order to study its impacts on the living organisms. One of these experiments was conducted in the outer space.
The result of the experiment was sensational. Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Grigoriev states: "A mosquito survived in space". This insect spent a year on the ISS outer surface. It sounds incredible. "You see, we returned the mosquito back to the Earth. It woke up and started moving", says Anatoly Grigoriev. The mosquito was in space for about 1.5 years, with no food, and imposed by extreme variation of temperatures (-150deg - +60deg,ISS shadow-light).
The flier was studied in the Biorisk experiment: "We began it with bacteria, mould. Then a scientist from Japan proposed this insect".
Novosti Kosmonavtiki