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 have ...

The same is true of the first animals in space. Human beings had visions of traveling above the atmosphere and out toward the moon and planets, but the survivability of such an enterprise was very ...

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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 ...

It was the first animal to orbit the Earth, however it wasn’t the first animal in space. This title is reserved for the humble fruit fly. A few were launched into space by American scientists in ...

The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon ... spacecraft to signal when they enter the microgravity environment of space. The Artemis II mission, which is targeted to launch no sooner ...

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.