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Nadezhda (Russian: Надежда, Hope) was a cockroach that was sent into space during the Foton-M 3 bio-satellite flight between September 14 and 26, 2007 by Russian scientists. Scientists monitoring the mission from Voronezh announced that Nadezhda had successfully produced 33 offspring on Earth.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
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July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland. [8]August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive life-forms; [9] further tests are inconclusive.
Lost — and found — in space. After liftoff, a larger satellite, called KH-9 Hexagon, shot the 26-inch-wide spacecraft into a low-earth orbit so it would continuously circumnavigate the globe ...
21 April 11:48 Proton-K Baikonur Site 81/23 Roskosmos Priroda: Roskosmos Low Earth (Mir) Mir module: 23 March 2001 05:50: Successful 24 April 12:27 Delta II 7920-10 Vandenberg SLC-2W Boeing IDS MSX: BMDO: Sun-synchronous Infrared astronomy: In orbit: Successful Member of the Space Surveillance Network: 24 April 13:00 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132 ...
Solaris. Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction masterpiece was overshadowed by 2001: A Space Odyssey upon its initial 1972 release, but it’s a beautiful film in its own right, with many poignant ...
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