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Albert I
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 rockets before human spaceflight, when researchers were studying the effects of launch and extreme al...
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Able
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 recovery of both animals provided crucial data on the biological effects of space travel. Unfortunately, A...
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