1.   If he completes the program in March, Thagard will spend three months conducting biomedical experiments aboard Mir.

2.   Thagard, a physician, was to have performed biomedical experiments with American equipment while aboard the Russian space station, which is known as Mir.

3.   The question is whether NASA will take part in the Russian biomedical experiment, controversial in the United States.

4.   The question is whether the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will take part in the Russian biomedical experiment, controversial at least in the United States.

5.   The scientific potential could be broad because mice are the best-understood and most commonly used animals in biomedical experiments.

6.   This is just the latest hurdle for the controversial U.S.-Russian biomedical experiment.

7.   Will NASA take part in a Russian biomedical experiment involving monkeys in space?