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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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Yorick
Yorick, also referred to as Albert VI, was a rhesus monkey who participated in an Aerobee rocket flight on September 20, 1951, launched from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The flight carried Yorick and 11 mice to an altitude of approximately 45 miles (72 kilometers), reaching the edge of space. Yorick became the first monkey to be recovered alive after a rocket flight, though he died sever...
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