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Miss Sam
Miss Sam was a female rhesus macaque used by NASA for a suborbital test flight during the early stages of the American space program. On January 21, 1960, she was launched aboard the Little Joe 1B rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, to evaluate the Mercury spacecraft's launch escape system. The flight lasted 8 minutes and 35 seconds, successfully testing the abort mechanisms and subjecting the p...
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Bion
Bion was a Soviet rhesus macaque who flew aboard the Kosmos 1514 satellite as part of the Bion 6 mission in 1983. Alongside another macaque named Abrek, Bion was launched into space to study physiological changes during spaceflight. The mission marked the beginning of the Soviet Union's Bion satellite primate program, aiming to understand how complex organisms might react to prolonged periods in m...
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