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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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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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