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Scatback
Scatback was a rhesus macaque used by the United States in an early spaceflight experiment. He flew on a suborbital mission in December 1961 and survived the flight itself, but the recovery operation failed to locate him after the capsule landed at sea. His mission belongs to the period when American space programmes used primates to collect biological information before and during the first human...
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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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