Questions tagged [animals]
Questions regarding the use of living organisms from kingdom Animalia for space exploration.
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Is there any reason that we have not sent a small mammal to Mars? [duplicate]
It seems like much could be learned in this way but it seems like only orbital missions have had non-human life onboard.
I could actually see NASA decide not to send a mouse and certainly not a dog/...
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What was the first "all-civilian" animal spaceflight?
As long as SpaceX is (inaccurately) claiming the "first all-civilian spaceflight", what was the first spaceflight with animals that were all "civilians"? That is, they had never ...
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What kind of training did chimpanzees go through at the Chimp College?
In the Congress hearings on qualifications for astronauts in July 1962, a "Chimp University" where chimpanzees are trained for spaceflight is mentioned.
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Cats and dogs in microgravity; how much information is there on their locomotive ability or adaptability in space? Is there anything at all?
Cats and dogs are both known to be very popular pets for humans around the world and have been bred for thousands of years for this purpose.
Destin Sandlin's Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics | Smarter ...
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What animals would be best suited as pets or comfort animals for extended periods of spaceflight in microgravity?
Various scenarios that put more or less every folks in space for extended periods of time in microgravity in the future have been proposed, mostly based on space tourism but there could be ...
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Have any living organisms been intentionally launched into polar orbits?
The Space Shuttle was originally intended to be able to support polar orbits, by launching from Vandenberg AFB, in California. Although a launch complex was built, it was never used for a Shuttle ...
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How many Soviet space missions have had at least one tortoise?
Science Alert's These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space talks about two tortoises that flew aboard Zond-5 spacecraft on 2 September 1968, then later goes on to say:
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Number of nonhuman primates dead in space exploration
This statue, "Sam", in Riga, Latvia, is dedicated to the animal cosmonauts who perished during space flight experiments.
As far as I know, there were a lot of dead dogs on space flights, ...
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Was Miss Able's button-pushing experiment cancelled, or did it malfunction?
Miss Able was the first American animal to return alive from space, along with her co-passenger Miss Baker. She was supposed to press a telegraph button under her right hand, in response to a ...
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What was the correct origin of Miss Able's name?
Miss Able was an Army rhesus monkey who is regarded as the first American animal to survive return from space, along with her Navy squirrel monkey co-passenger Miss Baker. I have found conflicting ...
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Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey: Which one died on Apollo 17?
In addition to the three astronauts, Apollo 17 carried 5 pocket mice aboard the command module America. The astronauts nicknamed them Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey. One of the mice died; the remaining ...
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Could Laika have survived the Van Allen radiation during the intended duration of her mission?
Laika the dog was the first animal in space, aboard Sputnik 2. According to this answer, her mission was intended for 10 days, but Laika survived only 2 days due to the spacecraft overheating. ...
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Were any mammals born in space (or are there any confirmed planned missions to breed them)?
This answer claims rats had been born in space, but link with confirmation is broken.
Some pregnant rats were in space, but those didn't give birth in space.
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Is there anything on the ISS that would be destroyed if that object were returned safetly to Earth?
Is/was there anything (device, animal, plant, etc.) on the International Space Station that will be destroyed/dead if that object returns to Earth? (Assume that thing/animal is brought in, for example,...
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Are there types of animals that can't make the trip to space? (physiologically)
I thought about what kind of animals could make it to space, and I thought about how vertebrates can apparently withstand the G forces need to travel to the ISS, but I hadn't really thought about ...
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