Zond 5
Videos
Zond 5 was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 Zond 5 travelled around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and became the first Moon mission to include animals and the first to
Computer model of a Zond circumlunar spacecraft
Aurora Space Shuttle EO
Animals in space
Videos
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
Zond 5
…The Zond 5 capsule is on display at the RKK Energiya museum, located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Animals in space Zond 6, turtles on a circumlunar mission in November 1968…
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)