Cosmos 2229 mission. Overview.
The Cosmos 2229 unmanned biosatellite was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on December 29, 1992. This was the 10th Russia-sponsored international mission dedicated to space biology and marked the 8th mission with United States participation. The payload, which orbited the Earth for 11 days 16 h, included two rhesus monkeys; the papers that follow report studies on these monkeys.
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Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia.
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Connolly
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D013026:Space Flight; D018489:Space Motion Sickness / Q000503:physiopathology; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects