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Birds in Space II: Quails in the Cosmos (2011)
In the previous account of poultry in space, I related the story of how chicken embryos were launched aboard Discovery STS-29, but I did not make it to the story of birds (ex ova) in space. Despite…
In the film Belka, Strelka and others( Белка, Стрелка и другие, 2009), the famed spacewalking cosomonauts speak of helplessness and fragility of life just as would anyone who has ever faced the task of hand-feeding a songbird chick prematurely jettisoned from a nest. In order to address the problem of mechanical fixation and leverage identified in the previous experiments, researchers designed “jackets” or “ hammocks ” in which quails could be harnessed in proximity to a feeder enabling them to feed independently. The next milestone of the quail space odyssey began in 1999 in a collaboration between Slovak Air Force and Slovakian academic institutes and Roscosmos and again IMBP led by Dr. Tamara Gur’eva.
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