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The Russians put mice, gerbils, snails, some plants, and more into a space craft and sent them up to Mars. The craft recently came back and Rossiya state television said that not all the animals came back alive, they gave no further detail. This mission had been praised by the media in Russia, mainly because no other country had ever pulled something like this off. A field research lab was deployed near where the capsule landed to quickly test the animals' responses the their journey. The small menagerie had dozens of individual cages that would be flown to Moscow for more tests. They used animals because they are subject to kinds of experiments that are not possible to conduct on humans who are currently operating the Internal Space Station (ISS). The experiment maily states how microgravity impacts the skeletal and nervous system as well as organisms' muscles and hearts. The animals were stored in 5 special containers that automatically opened after researching orbit and closed once it was time to return. Also on board were over 2 dozen measuring devices and other scientific objects. Russia has had its sights on Mars for a long time, and they predict that 2030 could be the year they begin creating a base on the moon for flights to the Red Planet. However pasts problems in Russia's space program have threatened their future exploration efforts, such as the failure of a research satellite that Moscow tried sending up to one of Mars' moons last year.
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