Preparation of Medaka Fish Adjusted to the Soyuz Rocket Launch Time at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh (IMAGE)
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To utilize transgenic medaka larvae in the space experiment, scientists and engineers carried fish eggs from Japan to Baikonur. They reared adult medaka fish in Moscow and collected eggs as a backup for delay of rocket launch (upper left). To perform in vivo imaging at international space station, they put hatching larvae into special gel in the fish chambers by using sterilized equipment (lower left). They carefully chose the first fish chambers judged by posture of fish (upper right) and put the chambers into blue boxes that were mounted in the Soyuz rocket (lower right; Mr. Tanigawa, the one on the far right and Dr. Chatani, the 2nd from the right).
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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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