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  2. Animals in space - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...

  3. List of Farscape characters - Wikipedia

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    John Robert Crichton, Jr. / ˈ k r aɪ t ən /, played by Ben Browder, is an International Aeronautics and Space Administration (most commonly referred to on the show as IASA) astronaut who, in the opening few minutes of the pilot episode, is accidentally catapulted through a wormhole across the universe, thus; setting the scene for the show as a whole.

  4. List of astronauts by name - Wikipedia

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    The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.

  5. Orbiting Frog Otolith - Wikipedia

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    The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which sent two bullfrogs into orbit on November 9, 1970, for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite. Otolith referred to the frog's inner ear balance mechanism.

  6. List of cosmonauts - Wikipedia

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    A Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33 / 32 Vladimir Aksyonov (1935–2024) — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2 Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3 Ivan Anikeyev (1933–1992) — Expelled from Vostok program; no flights. Oleg Artemyev * — Soyuz TMA-12M, Soyuz MS-08, Soyuz MS-21 Anatoly Artsebarsky * — Soyuz TM-12 Yuri Artyukhin ...

  7. Meet SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew: The daring 4 who are in ...

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    Jared Isaacman is the billionaire bankrolling the mission and serving as its commander. This isn't the 41-year-old's first rodeo. In 2021, he funded and flew on the first-ever all-civilian ...

  8. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.

  9. Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey - Wikipedia

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    The three astronauts and the five mice were the last Earthlings to travel to and orbit the Moon. [4] Evans and the five mice share two living-being spaceflight records, the longest amount of time spent in lunar orbit (147 hours 43 minutes), and the most lunar orbits completed (75). [5]