This week, Russia is expected to launch its Bion-M No.2 biosatellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying 75 ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard ...

According to NASA’s history of animals in space, the first animals were launched into space in the 1940s and 1950s. Scientists also sent monkeys, chimps, and dogs into space to assess the ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard ...

For Americans, the animals of choice were monkeys. 'Albert,' a rhesus monkey, was the first animal in space when he was launched from the White Sands Missile Range on a suborbital flight.

Mice The first mouse was sent into space on August 31, 1950 aboard a V-2 rocket. Since then, these animals have frequently been used by various space agencies in numerous experiments due to their ...

Ham, the Chimp NASA Named Ham, the first chimp to get its "space stripes" rode into sub-orbit aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket, reaching an altitude of 157 miles (253 kilometers) on Jan. 31, 1961.

In 1783, a newly invented hot-air balloon, the “Aerostat Reveillon” rose into the sky. On board were a duck, a rooster, and a sheep—the first animal passengers in a man-made flying machine ...

The first animals in outer space were fruit flies launched in a captured Nazi V-2 rocket on Feb. 20, 1947. The flies reached an altitude of 68 miles (108 km) and were recovered alive by parachute.

The first animals to fly around the Moon and return to Earth on Zond 5, launched on September 15, 1968 with two Russian tortoises (also the first ones in space), meal worms, plants, seeds, wine ...

She has a grave at NASA's Space and Rocket Center in Alabama, which describes her as "the first US animal to fly in space and return alive." America, Europe, and Russia stopped sending monkeys ...