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Year Animal subject Flight profile
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United States
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1958 Mice _Wickie_, 1400 miles. None of the three
_Laska_, and flights were recovered.
_Benji_
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1958 Squirrel monkey 300-mile maximum altitude over a
_Old Reliable_ 1300-mile distance via a Jupiter
rocket. Not recovered.
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1959 Rhesus monkeys 300-mile maximum altitude over a
_Able_ and _Baker_ 1500-mile distance via a Jupiter
rocket. Recovered.
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1959 Black mice 500 seconds of weightlessness in
Discoverer III via a Thor-Able
rocket. The Discoverer vehicle did
not go into orbit and the animals
were lost.
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1959 Rhesus monkey 53-mile altitude in Little Joe.
_Sam_ Recovered.
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1960 Rhesus monkey 9-mile altitude in Little Joe.
_Miss Sam_ Recovered.
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1960 C-57 black mice 650-mile altitude over a 5000-mile
distance via Atlas RVX-2A.
Recovered.
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1961 Chimpanzee _Ham_ 156-mile altitude over a 414-mile
distance via a Redstone booster,
Mercury capsule. Recovered.
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1961 Chimpanzee _Enos_ 2 Earth orbits. 183 minutes of
weightlessnessat an apogee of 146
miles anda perigee of 99 miles.
Atlas booster, Mercury capsule.
Recovered.
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Soviet Union
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1958 Dogs _Belyanka_ 280-mile altitude in hermetically
and _Pestraya_ sealed cabin. Recovered.
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1959 Dog _Otyazhnaya_ Over 100-mile altitude. Recovered.
and a rabbit
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1960 Dogs _Belka_ and 16 Earth orbits (24 hours) via
_Strelka_, 21 Sputnik V. First successful recovery
black and 21 white of living creature from orbital
mice flight.
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1960 Dogs _Pchelka_ and 16 Earth orbits (24 hours).
_Mushka_ Spacecraft destroyed during reentry.
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1961 1 dog, mice, 1 Earth orbit at an apogee of 155
guinea pigs, and miles and a perigee of 114 miles.
frogs Recovered.
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1961 Dog _Laetzpochka_ 1 Earth orbit. Recovered.
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France
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1961 Rat _Hector_ 95-mile attitude in a capsule
boosted by a Veronique rocket.
Recovered.
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1963 Cat Felicette 95-mile altitude in a capsule
boosted by a Veronique rocket. Over
5 min of weightlessness. Recovered.
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