KUWAIT CITY, Oct 31: Russian experts are preparing an experiment in which 1,500 fruit flies will be sent into space for experiments, according to what the Russian Academy of Sciences announced.

Regarding the topic, the head of the Academy’s Biophysics Laboratory, Irina Ogneva, said: “We plan to send 1,500 fruit flies aboard the (Bion-M) laboratory No. 2, which Russia will launch into Earth’s orbits, to test the abilities of these organisms to adapt to space conditions and conditions of zero gravity. The laboratory is scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2024, reports Al-Rai daily.

She added, according to “Russia Today”: “We conducted a similar experiment in 2014 when we sent fruit flies aboard the scientific satellite (Foton-M) No. 4, where these creatures remained in space for 45 days, and then were returned to Earth, and the new generation that we obtained from... These insects were then sent to the International Space Station. In that experiment, we discovered that the flies adapted to the conditions of zero gravity and were able to reproduce, and the second generation of these insects reproduced more. Our goal is to study the effect of long space flights on organisms, and the effect of space radiation on them as well.”