This year marks 50 years since the first human went into space. But as scientists point out, the role that animals have played in the effort as well as the service they continue to give to space research should not be dismissed.
"Animals live shorter lives than humans," says Pavel Soldatov, a scientist from the BION Program. "Their metabolism is different, so we can extrapolate data from animal experiments to the conditions of man's flight into outer space." At the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, rodents are helping to solve space riddles, which include the task of learning how humans respond to spending time in orbit.
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