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Animals in space originally served to test the survivability of spaceflight, before human spaceflights were attempted. Later, many species were flown to investigate various biological processes and the effects microgravity and space flight might have on them.
American and Russian scientists utilized animals—mainly monkeys, chimps and dogs—in order to test each country’s ability to launch a living organism into space and bring it back alive and unharmed.
Animal Facts. 10 animals that have been to space: Discover the incredible animals that paved the way for human exploration. Animals were the early pioneers of space flight, taking one giant leap into space, and often losing their lives in the process. But what animals have been in space, and how many animals have died in space?
Animals in space research. Although the early animal astronauts achieved great fame, many other animals have quietly contributed to the body of scientific knowledge about life in space.
From Laika the dog to Ham the chimpanzee, animals have blasted off—and died—pioneering space travel for us. See what we still send up today.
After humans landed on the moon in 1969, animals in space no longer made the headlines, but spacecraft still carried biological payloads, including rabbits, turtles, insects, spiders, fish ...
From insects to primates, from dogs and cats to cold-blooded reptiles, animals have played a significant role in space exploration since the first fruit flies launched to Earth's upper atmosphere...
The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957. Laika was a young, part-Samoyed terrier found as a stray in Moscow.
What Animals Have Been to Space? The road to space is paved with the sacrifices of many animal astronauts. Here are the most fascinating stories of the animals sent to space.
Though far less famous than later non-human astronauts, the first animals in space were a group of fruit flies, launched to an altitude of 42 miles at the tip of a V-2 rocket, developed and...