As neither inhumanly, and all his achievements, humanity received at the expense of our smaller brothers. They were cut them. Burning, treated, conducted, and carry out experiments so that people were comfortable. The development of space - did not exception. I found out to whom we are obliged to life in orbit.
Hello from Darwin
Many scientists logically decided that primates must fly into space. They seem like our long-range relatives.
A total of 32 monkeys flew into space. These were McAki-cutters, painted macales and ordinary squirrels of monkeys, as well as piggy macaques.
Monkey Ham.
Frame from the movie National Geographic
Monkeys have experienced several countries. But the main race for the development of space went between the USSR and the United States. Americans made a bet on primates. But because of their impulsivity, animals had to immobilize. Because of this, many "volunteers" died. Within the framework of the Mercury program in the United States flew chimpanzees Ham and Enos. Soviet testes decided to trust the brothers to our smaller and chose dogs.
Friend of human
China also in 50-60 years spent experiments on dogs.
In the USSR, he was first studied the possibility of a flight of dogs on geophysical and space missiles, monitored the behavior of highly organized animals in the conditions of such flights, as well as the study of complex phenomena in the near-empty space.
Belka and Strelka
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For experiments, small journeys were caught. According to scientists, they are smarter, and it seems to be "not sorry." Although the tailed naturalists treated well. Sergey Queen had even their pets with whom he shared a sandwich. Alas, not all of them survived.
Rabbits, it is not only valuable fur
Dogs flew in pairs. Because they are quite smart and easily trained, they felt quite freely in the aircraft, but the rabbit flew shiny. It carried out biological experiments related to vision.
Snowflake juice and rabbit test
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Gourmet French
On October 18, 1963, the French launched a casual cat to subborital flight. The poor fellow went to the flight just by chance. Since the cat, which was trained in astronauts, escaped, and everything was ready for launch. The cat was called Felisette, she reached a height of more than 100 km and returned to Earth.
Cat in orbit
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Ancient and wise
The turtles were the first to fly around the moon in the Zond-5 ship. This happened in 1968. The descent apparatus "Probe-5" entered the ballistic trajectory into the atmosphere of the Earth and driven in the Indian Ocean. They were raised to the Soviet ship and sent to Moscow. All turtles survived, only one of them due to overload, reaching 20 units when landed, got out of the eye orbit.
Turtle in the helmet
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In various space expeditions, they also visited the guinea pigs, rats, mice, quail, tritons, frogs, snails, some species of fish and hamsters.
The first animals of the Earth, who were born beyond its borders, of course, cockroaches.