2 Monkey-nauts Complete Course for Soviet Flight
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
Two monkeys have undergone a two-week course in simulated space flight in preparation for the launching of a Soviet biological satellite, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya said on Friday.
They are to be launched late this month along with an assortment of rats, amphibians, fish, insects and plants as part of a joint Soviet-U.S. unstaffed space experiment.
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