The animals that travelled to space
The top 3 according to 188 votes from people: Fruit flies (1947) · Albert II (1949) · The first mice (1950). (Updated Jan 28, 2019.)
From the fruit flies of 1947 to Félicette the French cat, by way of Laika and Ham the chimpanzee: the animals that paved the way to space before humans. Which one touches you most?
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Top 12
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Fruit flies (1947)
The first animals in space, aboard a V-2 rocket.
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Albert II (1949)
The first monkey in space.
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The first mice (1950)
Sent up by the Americans, they did not survive the return.
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Belka and Strelka (1960)
The first dogs to come back alive from orbit.
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Félicette (1963)
The French cat, the only cat to have flown in space.
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Ham (1961)
NASA's chimpanzee, three months before Alan Shepard.
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The Soviet dogs of the suborbital flights
A dozen dogs launched in the 1950s.
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The Salyut 5 guppies (1976)
The first fish in space.
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The Zond 5 tortoises (1968)
The first animals to fly around the Moon and come back.
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Nadezhda the cockroach (2007)
The first creature to conceive in space.
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Laika (1957)
The first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.
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12
Arabella the spider (1973)
She learned to spin her web in weightlessness aboard Skylab.
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Comments (2)
Félicette mérite d'être plus connue. Une chatte française dans l'espace en 1963, personne ne le sait !
Et Laïka... ça me rend toujours triste, elle n'avait aucune chance de revenir