Bonny vs Pierrette

Bonny was a pig-tailed macaque used in the United States Biosatellite 3 mission, which flew in 1969. The flight made Bonny part of early space-life-science research involving a primate and is described as the first multi-day monkey spaceflight. Bonny survived the flight long enough to be recovered but died after recovery, making the animal's record part of early space biology.

Pierrette was a pig-tailed macaque used by France's space program for a biological research mission in 1967. She was launched aboard a Vesta rocket on a suborbital trajectory, reaching an altitude of approximately 234 kilometers above the Earth. The flight was designed to study the physiological impacts of space travel and high-altitude acceleration on living organisms. Pierrette successfully comp...