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Pierrette
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...
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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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