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citation The first animal that scientiests intentionally sent into space was fruit flies in 1947. The fruit flies were aboard a v2 rocket, sceintests were studying the effects of radiation at high altitude.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html A V-2 Blossom launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico carrying Albert 1, a monkey.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html A second V-2 flight carrying a live air force laboratory monkey Albert 2 attained an altitude of 83 miles. he died on impact.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html The last V-2 monkey flight was launched at White Sands, Albert 4 was attached to monitoring instruments while going up. This flight was a successfull flight with no ill effects to the monkey until impact when it died.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html A mouse that was on another V-2 flight was photographed in flight but did not survive impact
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html Dezik and Tsygan were the first two canines to be astronauts. they were successfully retrieved after flight.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html The two dogs went up for another flight to space but unfortunately they did not make it but the data that was recorded survived.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html The 6th flight try for a pair of dogs occurred
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html A monkey named Yorick and 11 mice were recovered after an Aerobee missile flight of 236,000 feet at Holloman air force base. Monkey got a lot of press for being the first monkey to survive the space flight
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html Sputnik 2 blasted into orbit with a dog named Laika aboard.she was very carefully trained and put in a metal carrier under the second Sputnik sphere.
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http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html Even though Laika only lasted a couple hours on Sputnik, it burned up in the outer earth's atmosphere and did not make the trip back home either
