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Russia Sends Animals in Space Again With “Noah’s Ark” Mission | Spotlight | N18G  Russia is launching the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite, dubbed a "modern-day Noah’s Ark." Onboard are 75 mice, over 1,000 fruit flies, plant seeds, cell cultures, and microorganisms for a 30-day mission to study the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation. While billed as a scientific milestone, the mission echoes a long, troubling legacy Laika, Ham, and others sacrificed for human progress. These animals endure harsh conditions, often without recognition or ethical protection. As space exploration advances, critics question the morality of using sentient life as expendable tools in the pursuit of knowledge beyond Earth. Watch the video to know more. ---  Russia Space Mission | Animals In Space | Laika Dog In Space | Russia Space Study | Mice In Space | Space News | Russia Space News | Russia Rocket Launch | Russia Space Dog | Firstpost | News Live | World News | Latest News | Global News | International News | News | Trending News  #russiaspacemission #animalsinspace #laikadoginspace #russiaspacestudy #miceinspace #russiaspacenews #russiarocketlaunch #russiaspacedog #firstpost #newslive #worldnews #latestnews #globalnews #news #internationalnews #trendingnews  Firstpost is an Indian news and media website. Get all the incisive opinions, in-depth analyses and other visual stories that matter to you and the world right here on this channel.   Subscribe to Firstpost channel and press the bell icon to get notified when we go live.    https://www.youtube.com/@Firstpost  Follow Firstpost on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstpost/   Follow Firstpost on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstpostin/   Follow Firstpost on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/firstpost  Follow Firstpost on WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6zOIrEQIamseyg762V  # news # breaking # 24x7

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00:00Now today's Russia Soyuz 2.1b rocket will rise from Kazakhstan carrying with it not astronauts

00:07but an ark of small voiceless passengers. It is being touted as the modern day Noah's ark.

00:16Inside the beyond M2 biosatellite 75 mice, more than a thousand fruit flies, plant seeds,

00:24cell cultures and microorganisms will be sent on a 30-day journey around the earth.

00:30Russia says the mission's purpose is scientific. It is to study how microgravity and cosmic radiation

00:37affect living organisms. It will be in an orbit that exposes the biosatellite to radiation levels

00:46at least 10 times higher, conditions designed to mimic deep space travel. A knowledge deemed vital

00:53for future deep space travel, but behind the clinical language of science lies a grim truth.

01:01Animals are once again being sacrificed to push humanity forward.

01:06Russia's space program has long relied on such sacrifices. The story begins in 1957 with Laika.

01:15It was a stray dog plucked from Moscow's streets and launched aboard Sputnik 2. Laika never returned.

01:22Confined in a small capsule with no hope of rescue, Laika died from heat and oxygen deprivation.

01:29A lonely, preventable death that nonetheless etched its name into history books.

01:35The United States followed soon after with Ham. It was a chimpanzee sent on a suborbital flight in 1961.

01:45Ham endured invasive monitoring, electric shocks for mistakes and severe dehydration.

01:52Though physically survived, its psychological trauma outlived the mission.

01:57In 2019, Israel's Bereshit spacecraft crash-landed on the moon with thousands of tardigrades and

02:07there were tiny resilient water bears on board. Their survival remains unknown, suspended in silence.

02:14Decades later, the pattern remains disturbingly familiar.

02:19Russia's 2013 Bion-N No. 1 mission subjected its animal crew to intense cosmic radiation.

02:27Rodents, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans, mollusks, fish, insects, bacteria, plant and animal cell cultures were on board.

02:37Now, the Bion-N No. 2 bio-satellite will repeat the same ordeal.

02:44For the animals inside, it may be a death sentence.

02:48And yet, their fate rarely makes headlines.

02:52Unlike military service dogs, which at least receive retirement programs,

02:57space animals have no formal exit protocols.

02:59They are tools, discarded when the experiment ends.

03:05The ethical question grows sharper as missions expand.

03:09Outer space law regulates issues like astronaut rescue, satellite registration and liability for damages.

03:17Yet not a single provision protects animals, despite their pivotal role in space history.

03:22Their suffering is invisible in official records.

03:26Their death is an unspoken cost of progress.

03:30As Russia prepares its new Noah's Ark launch,

03:34the scientific community celebrates another step toward human survival beyond Earth.

03:40Yet beneath the triumph lies tragedy,

03:43a reminder that for every breakthrough,

03:45countless small lives are extinguished and unremembered.

03:49Like it did not volunteer,

03:52Han did not raise his hand.

03:53The mice, the flies, and the tiger dates,

03:57they are drafted into humanity's grand ambitions without consent,

04:02their stories ending in obscurity.

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