Most Astronauts Have Been Animals

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We all know Laika the dog and maybe Ham the chimpanzee but the entire pantheon of animals that have been to space is surprisingly vast. Everything from cats to worms to fish to newts to spiders have been flown in space to test the effect of space and zero gravity on life forms. Here is my best attempt to catalogue all of them.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1957-002A
http://www.astronautix.com/r/r-7.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-11-177105809_x.htm
https://www.space.com/laika-space-dog
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laika
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202302/history.cfm
https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part1.htm
https://history.nasa.gov/animals.html
https://www.huntsville.org/blog/list/post/miss-baker-huntsvilles-monkey-who-went-to-space/
https://www.al.com/living/2016/05/miss_baker_-_the_original_monk.html
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/2982/ten-most-unusual-creatures-sent-to-space-geckos-russia-sex -- PIC!
https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn36216 -- video
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/463657-first-rabbit-in-space
https://www.businessinsider.com/belka-strelka-first-dogs-survive-space-moscow-space-museum-2015-8
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/mercury-primate-capsule-and-ham-astrochimp -- PICS!
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/stray-dogs-became-soviet-space-heroes/ -- PIC of Blackie, but they get the date wrong
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-97-16252-3hjpg -- PIC of Ivan (and right date)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/the-doll-that-helped-the-soviets-beat-the-us-to-space/274400/
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/vostok-earth39s-first-spaceship-n08781/lot.1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space
https://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/felix.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/567451/brief-history-felicette-first-cat-space
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/felicette-first-cat-space-finally-gets-memorial-180974062/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sergethew/a-statue-to-felicette-the-first-cat-in-space/description
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-was-first-animal-space
https://www.nature.com/articles/laban.451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space
https://www.rd.com/list/animals-in-space/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-first-earthlings-around-the-moon-were-two-soviet-tortoises
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/spider-anita-skylab-3/nasm_A19740484000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2992123.stm
https://www.space.com/38628-first-interstellar-mission-nematodes-tardigrades.html
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a11137/tardigrades-water-bears/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14690-water-bears-are-first-animal-to-survive-space-vacuum/#.U-OzhIBdWd4
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Research/Tiny_animals_survive_exposure_to_space
https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/?verso=true
https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 - Space Bat
2:11 - Laika The Dog
4:20 - Flies in Space
5:34 - The Alberts
6:57 - Pet Hug Break
7:11 - Dezik, Tsygan, and Yorick
8:18 - Yorick
8:53 - Patricia, Mike, and Gordo
9:27 - Able and Baker
10:40 - Belka, Strelka, and Ham
12:20 - Ivan's Menagerie
14:59 - Enos the Chimp
15:20 - Félicette the Cat
16:33 - The Fabulous Nematode
18:40 - Tardigrades
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