Moscow children to send butterfly to outer space (Voice of Russia)

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Published 02 July, 2007, 10:00

Moscow school children who won the experiment in Space competition will send a butterfly to outer space. At their request a pupa will spend 12 days on board the Photon scientific satellite.

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