Cosmos 2229 mission overview.
Korolkov, V., D. Helwig, M. Viso, and J. Connolly.
Institute of Biomedical Problems, Khoroshevskoye Shosse 76A,
123007, Moscow, Russia, Lockheed Martin Engineering and Sciences
Services, Moffett Field, CA 94035, Centre National Etudes Spatiales,
2 Place Maurice-Qentin, 75039 CEDEX 01, Paris, France, Life Sciences
Division, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035
APStracts 3:0181A, 1996.
The Cosmos 2229 unmanned biosatellite was launched from the Plesetsk
Cosmodrome in northern Russia on December 29, 1992. This was the
tenth Russia-sponsored international mission dedicated to space
biology and marked the eighth mission with U.S. participation. The
payload, which orbited Earth for 11 days, 16 hours, included two
Rhesus monkeys; the manuscripts which follow report studies on these
monkeys.
Received 1 March 1996; accepted in final form 3 April 1996.
APS Manuscript Number A319-6.
Article publication pending Journal of Applied Physiology.
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1996 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on 16 April 96