Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey
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Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who orbited the Moon a record 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission.
Five mice and three astronauts traveled toward the Moon and returned to Earth in Apollo 17's Command Module America, now on display at Space Center Houston.
NASA astronaut Ronald Evans and the mice orbited the Moon together for over six days in 1972.
The night launch of Apollo 17, December 7, 1972
The Apollo 17 space capsule about to splash down in the south Pacific Ocean
Animals in space
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Animals in space originally served to test the survivability of spaceflight, before human spaceflights were attempted. Later, many species were flown to investigate various biological processes and th
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey
…dry desert conditions, including its ability to go without water for long periods, the same traits that first made it useful for spaceflight research. Animals in space Fee-fi-fo-fum, the namesake portion of the 1734 English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk…
Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959.
V2 launch No. 47 carried the first mammal, a rhesus monkey named Albert II, into space on June 14, 1949.
During the 29 November 1961, NASA Mercury-Atlas 5 flight, Enos became the only chimpanzee, and third primate, to orbit the Earth.
First spider web built in space (during Skylab 3, 1973)