Mike vs Albert II
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Mike
Mike was a cynomolgus monkey who participated in a United States aerospace research flight in 1952. He was launched alongside another monkey named Patricia aboard an Aerobee rocket to study the effects of high-altitude flight. The mission was a short suborbital flight designed to test biomedical instrumentation and gather data on the physiological impacts of acceleration. Both animals survived the...
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Albert II
Albert II was a rhesus macaque monkey who became the first primate to reach outer space on June 14, 1949. Launched by the United States aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Albert II reached an altitude of approximately 134 kilometers. This flight crossed the Kármán line, the widely recognized boundary of space, following the earlier suborbital flight of Albert I, who...
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