A chimpanzee named Ham was part of the US-led Mercury space programme. On 31 January 1961, the first hominid was launched into space. In the 1950s, the US and the Soviet Union launched a total of 12 dogs on various suborbital flights, Laika being the first. In October 2002, Dimitri Malashenkov, one of the scientists behind the Sputnik 2 mission, revealed that Laika had died by the fourth circuit of flight from overheating. Two other monkeys, Albert III and IV also died when their rockets failed.Ī mouse was launched into space on 15 August 1950 but did not survive the return journey. Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. On 4 June 1949, Albert II became the first monkey in space, but he died on reentry when the parachute to his capsule failed.
These species include rhesus macaques, squirrel monkeys and pig-tailed monkeys. To date, a total of 32 monkeys have flown in space. She was 3 years old at the time of the launching of Sputnik 2. On November 3, 1957, Sputnik 2, with the dog Laika aboard, lifted off with g-forces reaching five times normal gravity levels. Included among these are the golden retrievers at Texas A&M University who have been bred to develop painful and severely debilitating Duchenne muscular dystrophy.As well as the fruit flies and Laika, since the 1940s, a variety of animals have been sent into space including ants, cats, frogs, and even jellyfish. Laika, one of the Russian space dogs, was the first living passenger in orbit when she flew on Sputnik 2 (3 November 1957). LAIKA: Laika was a stray, mongrel breed dog found on the streets of Moscow. More than 65,000 dogs are tormented in U.S. Is this really how “man’s best friend” should be treated?ĭogs’ status as “man’s best friend” offers them no protection from being locked inside cages alone and forced to endure excruciating experiments.
And we got NASA’s plan to irradiate monkeys scrapped. But rats, mice, primates, fish, turtles, and other animals are still being sent into space in cruel curiosity-driven experiments. These animals all have a right to be treated with respect and not be experimented on, no less than Laika did. In 1996, PETA successfully campaigned to get NASA to pull out of Bion-a joint U.S., French, and Russian experiment in which scientists forced monkeys into straitjackets and implanted electrodes in their bodies before launching them into space. The sad story of Laika, the first dog launched into orbit Even Oleg Gazenko-one of the lead scientists who worked with dogs used in the space program-thought so, admitting, “The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. What Laika was subjected to was cruel and inexcusable. Temperatures inside the tiny spacecraft quickly soared, and within hours, she cooked to death-all alone and in severe pain. During the launch, her pulse shot up to three times its normal rate and she was so terrified that it remained elevated for an extended time. More than 60 years ago, Laika was captured as a stray on Moscow’s streets and subjected to grueling “training,” including being spun in a centrifuge, confined to a pressure chamber, and locked inside progressively smaller cages.
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