Top Results for Rhesus

Able was a rhesus macaque born at the Ralph Mitchell Zoo in Kansas who became one of the first primates to survive a spaceflight. On May 28, 1959, Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker were launched into suborbital space aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket by the United States. The successful recove...

Tetra is a rhesus macaque born in 1999 at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, recognized as the first cloned primate. Unlike previous mammalian clones created using somatic cell nuclear transfer, Tetra was produced through a method called embryo splitting, also known as artificial twinning....

Retro is a rhesus macaque monkey born in July 2020 who was announced by Chinese researchers in early 2024 as the first healthy cloned rhesus macaque to survive to adulthood. Retro was created using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same technique used to clone Dolly the sheep. The research t...

Zhakonya was a Soviet rhesus macaque used in scientific research aboard the Bion 9 satellite, launched in September 1989. Alongside another monkey named Zabiyaka, Zhakonya spent 13 days and 17 hours in low Earth orbit, setting a spaceflight endurance record for primates at the time. The mission was...

Zabiyaka was a rhesus macaque monkey used by the Soviet space program for biological research. On September 15, 1989, Zabiyaka flew aboard the Bion 9 satellite, also known as Kosmos 2044, alongside another monkey named Zhakonya. The primary mission was to study the physiological effects of prolonged...

Semos was a nine-year-old male rhesus macaque residing at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. In 2007, scientists led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov successfully utilized Semos's skin cells to create cloned embryonic stem cells. This marked the first time primate embryonic stem cells were extracted...

Miss Sam was a female rhesus macaque used by NASA for a suborbital test flight during the early stages of the American space program. On January 21, 1960, she was launched aboard the Little Joe 1B rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, to evaluate the Mercury spacecraft's launch escape system. The fl...

Krosh was a rhesus macaque used by the Soviet and Russian space programs for orbital flight research. He flew aboard the Bion 10 satellite, launched in December 1992 and returning to Earth in January 1993. Following the mission, scientists studied the physiological effects of prolonged weightlessnes...

Abrek was a rhesus macaque utilized by the Soviet space program for orbital research. He flew as a primary payload aboard Kosmos 1514, also designated as the Bion 6 mission, which launched in December 1983. This mission marked the Soviet Union's first successful orbital flight using primates, aiming...

Bion was a Soviet rhesus macaque who flew aboard the Kosmos 1514 satellite as part of the Bion 6 mission in 1983. Alongside another macaque named Abrek, Bion was launched into space to study physiological changes during spaceflight. The mission marked the beginning of the Soviet Union's Bion satelli...

Dryoma was a Soviet rhesus macaque used for scientific research during the Bion 8 mission, which launched on the Kosmos 1887 satellite in 1987. The mission was designed to study the effects of spaceflight on biological organisms, focusing on radiation and microgravity. Following his successful recov...

Lapik was a Russian rhesus macaque used in the Bion 11 biological research mission, which flew from December 24, 1996, to January 7, 1997. He flew alongside another macaque named Multik to study the physiological effects of microgravity on primates during a two-week orbital flight. This mission was...

Yerosha was a rhesus macaque used in the Soviet Union's Bion space-biomedical research program. Together with another macaque named Dryoma, he flew aboard Bion 8 from September 29 to October 12, 1987, while experiments examined how living organisms responded to orbital flight. The mission formed par...

Verny was a rhesus macaque carried aboard the Soviet biosatellite Bion 7, also designated Kosmos 1667. The spacecraft remained in orbit from July 10 to July 17, 1985, conducting biomedical research into the effects of spaceflight on living organisms. Verny was one of the primates used by the Bion pr...

Ivasha was a rhesus macaque used in the Bion 10 biological research mission, which orbited Earth from December 29, 1992, to January 7, 1993. The monkey flew with another rhesus macaque as part of experiments examining how spaceflight affected living organisms. The mission belonged to the long-runnin...

Albert IV was a rhesus macaque used in the United States’ late-1940s V-2 rocket experiments involving animals. He flew on the last monkey V-2 mission in 1949 and reached space on a suborbital flight, but died when the capsule struck the ground after a parachute malfunction. Albert IV is distinct fro...

Fargam was a male rhesus macaque used in an Iranian biological spaceflight experiment. He was launched on 14 December 2013 inside the Pishgam capsule, carried by an Iranian Kavoshgar rocket, on a suborbital flight. Iranian authorities reported that the capsule reached an altitude of about 120 kilome...

Multik was a Russian rhesus macaque that flew on Bion 11 in 1996 and 1997; he died under anesthesia during post-flight biopsy sampling.

Scatback was a rhesus macaque used by the United States in an early spaceflight experiment. He flew on a suborbital mission in December 1961 and survived the flight itself, but the recovery operation failed to locate him after the capsule landed at sea. His mission belongs to the period when America...

Aftab was an Iranian rhesus macaque used in the country's 2013 primate spaceflight program, reported as safely returned after a suborbital launch.

Albert I was a rhesus macaque used by the United States in an early biological spaceflight experiment. He was launched aboard a V-2 rocket in 1948 and reached high altitude during the flight, but the mission did not return him safely. Albert I is remembered in accounts of the animals sent on early r...

Ramu was a rhesus macaque in India whose reported confinement became connected with a legal and social dispute. Accounts described the monkey as being kept behind bars for years after attacks on children, with the incidents contributing to communal unrest in Jagannathpur. The case is associated with...