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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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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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