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| |  ESA-Experimente mit der ersten Touristin im Weltall15 September 2006 Anousheh Ansari, has been officially named to the Soyuz TMA-9 primary crew. The first female spaceflight participant will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 18, 2006 en route to the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Expedition 14 crew members: NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. Credits: Prodea Systems Loss of red blood cell mass, volume of blood plasma, and haemoglobin has been continuously observed in astronauts during space missions. This phenomenon has been termed “spatial anaemia” and the underlying mechanisms causing this are still not clear. This experiment aims to determine the degree of ‘stress’ that the red blood cells have undergone to bring about cell damage. Credits: James A. Sullivan - www.cellsalive.com | |
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