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Albert IV
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 from Albert II, whose earlier V-2 flight is generally identified as the first successful primate trip i...
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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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