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Russia retrieves mice, newts from space
Muhammad Iqbal
19 May, 2013
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![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2013/05/072capsule.jpg">MOSCOW: A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit on Sunday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars.</P><P>Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) southeast of Moscow.</P><P>The capsule was also carrying snails and gerbils as well as some plants and microflora. There was no immediate information about how many of the animals survived.</P><P>The TsSKB-Progress space research centre's department head Valery Abrashkin said on the day the mission took off in April that the study was aimed at determining how bodies adapt to weightlessness )