Martine vs Bonny

Martine was a pig-tailed macaque used by the French space agency for a suborbital spaceflight in 1967. She was launched aboard a Vesta rocket from the Hammaguir test range in Algeria, reaching an altitude of approximately 243 kilometers before successfully returning to Earth. The mission gathered physiological data on the effects of brief spaceflight and high-altitude radiation on primates. Martin...

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.