Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals
were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the
late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian
space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but
also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps
Ham and Enos were the only primate flights conducted by the United
States. In fact, both countries had sent literally dozens of
animals aloft for many years prior to these events and continued to
do so for many years after. Other latter-day space nations, such as
France and China, would also begin to use animals in their own
space research.
Animals in Space will explain why dogs, primates, mice and other
rodents were chosen and tested, at a time when dedicated scientists
from both space nations were determined to establish the
survivability of human subjects on both ballistic and orbital space
flights. It will also recount the way this happened; the secrecy
involved and the methods employed, and offer an objective analysis
of how the role of animals as spaceflight test subjects not only
evolved, but subsequently changed over the years in response to a
public outcry led by animal activists. It will explore the ways in
which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on
space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both
successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then
undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater
understanding and confidence.
This book is intended as a detailed yet highly readable and
balanced account of the history of animal space flights, and the
resultant application of hard-won researchto space technology and
astrobiology. It will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on
animal space flights.
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