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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 ...
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.
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June 4 – The European Space Agency's Cluster is lost when the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 rocket fails, self-destructing 37 seconds after launch from the Guiana Space Centre because of a software bug in the computer control system. [4]
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 ...
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 ...
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Enos, the third great ape and only chimpanzee to orbit the Earth, being prepared for launch on Mercury-Atlas 5 (November 29, 1961) Able, who flew on the first two monkey space mission in May 1959, on display at the National Air and Space Museum Sam, a rhesus macaque, flew to an altitude of 88 km (55 mi) on December 4, 1959, on a NASA rocket, Little Joe 2