We all know Laika the dog and maybe Ham the chimpanzee but the entire pantheon of animals that have been to space is surprisingly vast. Everything from cats to worms to fish to newts to spiders ...

Animals were every bit as heroic as the first human astronauts By Jeffrey Kluger Animals have long been the science community’s shock troops—the first to hit the beaches when a new frontier of ...

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From dogs to chimpanzees, animals were the early pioneers of space flight and they played pivotal roles in space exploration The first animal in space was launched in 1947 and surprisingly it was ...

Long before the historic moment of humans setting foot on the moon, numerous animals played a crucial role in space exploration, helping advance astronautical research in the years that followed.