Animals In Space
Andres Ramirez
Facts
-The first animal in space was a Rehesus Monkey named Albert I
-The first animal to orbit was a dog named Lakia
-This project was meant to see if you could essentially breathe in space
-7 countries were involved in this
-The purpose of this project was to see if you could breathe in space
-One of the dogs Strelka came back and gave birth to 6 puppies one of her puppies was given to John F. Kennedy
-A Rehesus monkey Sam did a solo flight in December
-Felix a stray cat sounding a rocket to 120 miles into space
-Ham the chimpanzee proved that jobs could be performed in a weightlessness enviorment
-Yorick the monkey and 13 mice were the first to make it near space with 45 miles and space begins at 50 miles