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Meet the Heroic Animals That Went Into Space Before Humans
Sometime during her fourth orbit, she died when her cabin overheated ... It was all harmless fun at first for Baker, a squirrel monkey, and her space travel companion, Able, a rhesus monkey ...
PBS5y
The Space Race
May 28: NASA launches two monkeys from Cape Canaveral and successfully ... April 12: Vostok 1 carries Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit; he is the first human in space.
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Monkeys in Space
The Apollo 13 Space Emergency How to Survive in Space: Into Orbit How to Survive in Space: Deep Space For the first time, America sends two monkeys into space and brings them back alive.
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A dog sent to die and tortoises that flew around the moon: These are the most famous, bizarre, and important animals that have been sent to space
NASA and other space agencies put animals in space long before humans, using monkeys, dogs ... and some continue to send animals into orbit today. Some animals were sent up to test the impact ...