PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S ): Richard E. Belleville 



EXPERIMENT TITLE/NUMBER : 



PROGRAM/MISSION : Aerobee 150A 



CLASSIFICATION : Animal - Rat 



DISCIPLINE(S) : Behavioral science, Environmental health 



OBJECTIVES : To deterimine the gravity preference of a small animal when 

 subjected to an artificial gravity field. 



PROTOCOL : The white rats (2) were placed in a sounding rocket for 

 approximately 8 minutes. They were placed in a cage where the animals could 

 make a choice of gravity fields from .35 to 1.60 "g's" during approximately 

 five minutes of zero-gravity trajectory. 



EQUIPMENT : The animal environmental chambers were composed of two hinged 

 tracks, deployed during flight to 15 degrees from vertical spin axis, 

 associated instrumentation and environmental control equipment. 



RESULTS : The rat spent the majority of the time in .8g. 



CONCLUSIONS : Since the time of weightlessness and artificial gravity was 

 limited, these results are not conclusive. 



PUBLICATIONS : 29 



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