Biosatellite 2, also known as Biosat 2 or Biosatellite B, was the second mission in NASA's

Biosatellite program NASA, NASA's Biosatellite program was a series of three Uncrewed spacecraft, uncrewed artificial satellites to assess the effects of spaceflight, especially radiation and weightlessness, on living organisms. Each was designed to reenter Earth's at ...

for biological research. It was launched on September 7, 1967, by a Delta G rocket from

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. Biosatellite 2 carried 13 biological experiments involving

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eggs,

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s and

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s. The mission was ended early because of a

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threat in the recovery area and communication problems between the capsule and ground stations. The main objective of the mission was to determine if the radiation sensitivity of living organisms in space is greater or less than on land, for which disposed of a radiation source in front of the capsule. The satellite is currently the property of the National Air and Space Museum, reference numbe
A19731629000
It is currently on loan to the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

Experiments

* Effects of Weightlessness on Wheat Seedling Morphogenesis and Histochemistry * Growth

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of the Wheat Seedling in Space *

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Changes in the Developing Wheat Seedling in a Weightless State * Effect of Sub-gravity on the Dividing Egg of Rana Pipiens * Mutational Response of Habrobracon * Liminal Angle of a Plagiogeotropic Organ * Effects of Radiation and Weightlessness on Tribolium Pupae * Effects of Weightlessness on Radiation Induced Somatic Dam. in Drosophila Larvae * Effects of Space on Radiation-Induced Damage to Reproductive Cells of Drosophila Adults and Pupae *

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tic and Cytologic Studies of Tradescantia Irradiated During Flight * Combined Effects of Weightlessness and Radiation on Inact.+ Mutation in Neurospora * Space Flight Effects +

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Interaction on Growth + Induc.of

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* Effect of Weightlessness on Amoeba, Pelomyxa Carolinensis *Effects of Weightlessness on the Nutrition and Growth of Pelomyxa carolinensis

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