A microbiosystem created by a student from Moscow will go into space

The microbiosystem, which was developed at the Moscow Palace of Pioneers by 14-year-old Danila Solovey, will go into orbit today. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told about this in the MACH messenger.

"Such a project is the first step towards creating closed ecosystems for future lunar bases," Sobyanin wrote. He said that the Moscow schoolboy's work was noticed by specialists from the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ants and woodlice have been living in the module created by the student for more than two months. Scientists intend to find out how they adapt to zero gravity. When the capsule returns to Earth, the researchers will compare the space sample with the one left by the boy.

Sobyanin noted that this is not the only space development of Moscow schoolchildren. "Thanks to the support and opportunities provided by the capital's education, more and more children can turn their dreams of space into real discoveries," the mayor noted.

For example, Alexander Orlov and Andrey Gorshkov, students of the Proton Educational Center's space class, designed a model of an electromagnetic accelerator for launching spacecraft from the moon. Two more schoolchildren, from the engineering class of school No. 1538, have assembled a prototype of an orbital greenhouse station in which it is possible to study the mutation of bacteria in space.

Earlier, Sobyanin announced the victories of Moscow school students at international Olympiads. The students won gold, silver and bronze medals at the International Biology Olympiad in the Philippines. Other students became winners at the International Linguistics Olympiad, which was held in Taipei.

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