Letter: Correction:

Published 27 May 2000

The story “There’s no ER in orbit”
(29 April, p 4)
wrongly stated that monkeys flew aboard the space shuttle.
They flew aboard the Bion 11 spacecraft as part of a mission run
jointly by the US, Russian and French space agencies—Ed

Issue no. 2240 published 27 May 2000

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