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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Category: 1996 in outer space. 8 languages. ... Astronomical objects discovered in 1996 (1 C, 967 P) S. 1996 in spaceflight (2 C, ...
Chimpanzee Ham, who flew America's first suborbital space flight on Jan. 31, 1961, toasts NASA's anniversary by sampling a Skylab space drink on Oct. 01, 1973 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
1996 in outer space (2 C) P. 1996 in paleontology (1 C, 3 P) R. ... List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1996; April 1996 lunar eclipse; September 1996 ...
They were also the first animals to safely return from space. [56] Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet R-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi ...
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 ...