First Animal In Space

The first animals in space 1.
First animal in space. The soviet union launched numerous bion missions with numerous biological cargoes on. At least 10 more. Unfortunately laika died during the flight. Tardigrades cockroaches september 14 2007.
On june 14 1949 a rhesus monkey named albert ii blasted. They flew 300 miles high. Tortoises september 14. During the foton m3 s mission the european space agency launched.
He died on splashdown when a flotation device failed. The first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a u s launched v 2 rocket on 20 february 1947 from white sands missile range new mexico. The first animal to actually go into orbit was the dog laika launched on board the soviet sputnik 2 spacecraft on november 3 1957. The first vertebrates sent into space were a series of ill fated monkeys and mice launched between 1948 and 1951 by american researchers.
Able a rhesus monkey and baker a squirrel monkey were launched together on may 28 1959. Tortoises november 17 1975.