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well, it looks like half the animals on this list died due to the fact that the parachute didn't open.
The link I copied it from said "Japanese killfish". Other sites have refered to "killifish". Are these the same? Are they the same as medaka? Rmhermen 22:35, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)
Just a nitpick if anyone cares, there's a comment about a chimpanzee being the first primate in space, but Alan Shepard apparently beat him there. And I'm pretty sure humans are primates. User:Thaddeus_Selden 17:26, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC).
I'm also pretty sure Gagarin beat Sheperd into space; and I think Soviet cosmonauts are primates too. Conquistador48134.50.14.31 14:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)Reply
The first animals The first animal in orbit was the Soviet dog Laika onboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November, 1957. Laika died during the flight. At least 10 other dogs were launched into orbit and numerous others on sub-orbital flights before April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. (See Russian space dogs)
is it just me, or do those two statments confradict each other? Or, is it that there were penty of animals befor Laika, but none of them went into orbit? if so, could someone edit Space race Animals in space section please tooto 17:34, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Wouldn't this depend on how high you define "space"?
I also have questions about which animals were first in space.
The 1940's paragraph states "The first animals sent into space were fruit flies, accompanied by rye and cotton seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2 rocket on February 20, 1947.[1][2][3] ...The Blossom capsule was ejected and successfully deployed its parachute. The fruit flies were recovered alive."
But then in the 1950's paragraph it states
"On July 22, 1951, the Soviet Union launched the R-1 IIIA-1 flight, carrying the dogs Tsygan (Russian: Цыган, "Gypsy") and Dezik (Russian: Дезик) into space, but not into orbit.[5] These two dogs were the first living organisms successfully recovered from a spaceflight"
IF we can believe the information in the 1940's paragraph, these two dogs were not the first "living organisms" to be recovered from space. They are the first mammals. Living Fruit Flies are considered living organisms are they not? For that matter the seeds would be also considering the wide definition of "living organisms".
Should the 1950's paragraph be edited to read first living mammals?
Or am I misunderstanding something? Throckmorton Guildersleeve (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
From this article: "Althought it´s higly probable that microbes survived the on the interior of the first man made object sent to space, the first living being intentionally sent to space was a mouse. On August 31, 1950 the U.S. launched a mouse into space (137 km) aboard a V2"
From monkeys in space: "Albert was followed by Albert II who survived the V2 flight but died on impact on June 14, 1949. Albert II became the first monkey in space as his flight reached 134 km (83 miles)."
If you read these two articles, it implies that the first animal sent into space was a mouse, who was sent over a year after the first monkey in space. So, which is correct? 198.164.41.62 01:46, 28 July 2005 (UTC)Reply
There was a link to "first man in space". I made it point to Yuri Gagarin directly. I don't know if that is the correct thing to do or if I should have made "first man in space" a forwarding page to Yuri Gagarin. But I didn't know how to do that so I thought this would suffice =)
In this article the launch date for Sputnik 5 is given as August 12, 1960. But in the article Sputnik 5 the launch date is given as August 19, 1960. Could someone find out which is the right date and correct this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.102.202 (talk) 22:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
I love this article, but make it easier to read. I cannot belive how long it is! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.4.208 (talk) 00:30, 6 November 2009 (UTC)Reply
This page really needs a link to the Muppet Show's Pigs in Space classic (please...) http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Pigs_in_Space —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.36.99.137 (talk) 12:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
The title of this article does not meet the technical standard to be expected from an encyclopaedia. Perhaps, 'Non-Human organisms intentionally sent into outer space' would be more appropriate. The article could also be incorporated into other articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.67.195 (talk) 13:33, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
I quote:
"...with a United States Navy-trained South American squirrel monkey named Gordo onboard."
Is that vandalism? I mean a U.S. Navy trained squirrel-monkey? Get real! So is it vandalism?
Mod mmg (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:13, 6 February 2010 (UTC). EDIT: Hate you SineBot!Reply
The Argentine flights are underdocumented. Very little seems to be available online in English or Spanish and some of that is contradictory. For the first Bio I flight, Astronautica claims it was a U.S.-built Loki rocket flight, the much copied page from Reconquista y Defensa claims it was a modified Orion II and Argentine space researcher Pablo de Leon claims it was a Argentine-made "Yarara" rocket.[4] Some claims say that its final altitude was only 20km - hardly the edge of space. De Leon's book Historia de la Actividad Espacial en la Argentina only shows up in the Smithsonian collection and in the North Dakota University where he worked and so will be hard to check. Rmhermen (talk) 01:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
From what I know of most of the 1940s flights, they were high altitude, but it is questionable whether they got into Outer Space proper, as opposed to the fringes of the atmosphere. (ditto Chuck Yeager)--MacRusgail (talk) 14:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
A bit of trivia, but it might be of interest to have a list of species known to have been sent into space.--MacRusgail (talk) 14:23, 23 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
The article Soviet space dogs says "Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight on July 22, 1951", yet this article says "On January 29, 1951, the Soviet Union launched the R-1 IIIA-1 flight, carrying the dogs Tsygan (Russian: Цыган, "Gypsy") and Dezik (Russian: Дезик) into space". Which is it? AMCKen (talk) 02:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
This article is missing animal flight from China on the Shenzhou spacecreaft - mainly because we lack good sources. The Shenzhou II article is still unclear on what animals flew in 2001 or what their fate was. Even in the most recent EU/China biological experiments, all of the animals were poorly-explained Chinese-only experiments. One finds mention of Bulinus australianus, a spiral snail, but not a recognized species according to Wikipedia. Any new, good sources we be an improvement for this missing area. Rmhermen (talk) 17:20, 17 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
The species identification of this Argentian astro-monkey is problemmatic. None of our few sources on this program mention a species and online sources sem to indicate that a cai monkey may be "a capuchin monkey" (which species?), a black-tufted capuchin (doesn't match image in [5]), or a spider monkey (which species?). Better Argentinian sources would be nice. Rmhermen (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
It would seem like this page would seriously benefit by showing a list organized by animals themselves, and the observed effects? Simply knowing that some animals went up in each decade seems to do a huge injustice to this topic. Or should that be a whole other article in itself? Qwidjib0 (talk) 04:12, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hi
After reading a BBC article about the orbital sky-dive I decided to read up on a little factoid that was posted.
It said that the first creatures into space were Fruit Flies on board a UK launched V2 rocket, yet this wiki page says that it was a US launched rocket. I searched the internet and found a wired article as well as a few [unreliable] websites stating it was a UK launch...yet at the same time I also found a few websites saying it was a US launch.
Which one was it? Below are the two articles that say UK launch.
Wired Article
BBC Article
I assume it was a US launch and a typo caused it to say UK on the BBC since I have never heard of a UK launch of fruit flies, still I am not exactly an expert in the field of rocket history. Mishka Shaw (talk) 11:23, 2 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
This is one of the most sanitized articles I've seen on Wikipedia. While tagged with "Animal Rights," it has pictures of happy animals and cute little humans and bugs. It's like they went willingly and experienced no suffering what so ever. Congrats on the editors! Mehmetaergun (talk) 19:05, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
The article says that sputnik 5 had 2 dogs and a rabbit among the other mice, rats and plant and insect samples, but the source at http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/9288 makes no mention of a rabbit, only samples of rabbit and human skin. I haven't seen the entire video from the mission but clips mostly focus on the dogs. Can anyone verify if a rabbit was actually onboard the flight? Legomationer (talk) 19:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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This article gives us the animals that have been launched into space and even sometimes the exact expedition, but we don't really get to see why the animals were sent to space or what we learned by sending these animals to space. Is there a reason that this information hasn't been added or will this need to be added to the article?
-Biggerstaffjustin (talk) 01:50, 12 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
This would be consistent with the lead. Apokrif (talk) 00:45, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Xfg 223.182.231.128 (talk) 09:41, 19 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
This sentence: "Enos became the first and only chimpanzee to reach orbit on 29 November 1961, in another Mercury capsule, an Atlas rocket, Mercury-Atlas 5." seems out of place at the end of a paragraph about Ham the chimpanzee. I don't know where to move it to, though. Please, can someone accept the task? The B-Double (talk) 09:41, 13 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
This article is very informative but very long and you have to read through every paragraph to find each animal and it's species and if it died, etc. I think a list form (like List of spaceflight-related incidents) would be good, whether that be in a new article, appended to this one, or something else. just an idea to make the information easier to sort through Henriio (talk) 01:42, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply