Our wish to explore the universe has been continuing for many years. Space research is also a valuable module.

Within the scope of space research, there are many animals sent to space. Here we know about these animals…

1. Fruit Flies

• Date: 20 February 1947
• Country: USA

Fruit flies were the first creatures sent into space. They were used to examine the effects of radiation on living things and brought back to Earth.

2. Dog Laika

• Date: November 3, 1957
• Country: Soviet Union

Laika went down in history as the first creature. Unfortunately, the Sputnik 2 mission was not designed to return to Earth, Laika lost his life in space according to the eye …

3. Monkeys named ABLE and Baker

• Date: May 28, 1959
• Country: USA

Rhesus Monkey ABLE Squirrel Monkey Baker, the first monkeys to survive in space. This mission they were sent provided valuable biological information for human space flights.

4. Cat Félicette

• Date: 18 October 1963
• Country: France

Félicette is known as the first and only cat going into space. It was used to examine the neurological effects of the non -gravity environment and managed to return to the Earth without any problems, but they applied euthanasia to examine the brain after a short response. Thus, the story of the sinless cat launched into space ended.

5th Turtles

• Date: 15 September 1968
• Country: Soviet Union

The turtles were the first creatures circulating in the orbit of the Moon with a zond 5 mission. They were used to investigate the effects of long -term space travel on living things. They were able to return to the world in a healthy way.

6. Spiders

• Date: 1973 and 2011
• Country: USA

The spiders were thrown into space to examine their net knitting capabilities in gravity. In fact, they even managed to knit a network in space, but it was different from the Earth.

7. Mummichog Fish

• Date: 1973
• Country: Soviet Union

The fish were sent into space for work on movement and stability in gravity. Thus, swimming behaviors in space were examined.

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• Date: 2007
• Country: European Space Agency (ESA)

Tardigradlar, known as the most robust creatures in the world, stands out with their resistance in space. These incredibly microscopic creatures survived in space for 10 days and showed how strong they were to such extremely extraordinary conditions.

9. Mice

• Date: From the 1950s to the present
• Country: USA, Soviet Union/Russia, other countries

Mice; One of the most commonly used animals in research. They provided valuable data on bets for bone density, muscle loss and effects of radiation, but unfortunately there were those who died in space.

10. Sea Chestnuts

• Date: 2000s
• Country: USA

Sea Kestants were sent into space with the ambition to examine how reproductive cells behave in gravity without gravity, and thus data were obtained about reproduction in space.

11. SEMANDERS

• Date: 1990s
• Country: Russia

The salamanders shed light on work on cell renewal and tissue regeneration in space. They provided understanding how the injuries became beautiful in space and returned healthy.

12. Bees

• Date: 1984
• Country: USA

The bees were sent to space with the ambition to observe how to build honeycomb in a gravity environment, but in this environment, they could not make honeycombs, as on Earth.

13. Goat, sheep and other farm animals

• Date: 1960s
• Country: Soviet Union

The Soviet Union sent farm animals into space for studies on agriculture and animal husbandry in space. Although not all of the animals, many of them are known to survive.

14. Frogs

• Date: 1970
• Country: USA

Frogs were sent to understand how inner ear and stability systems function in a non -gravitational environment. In this way, we human beings were understood.

15th Jellyfish

• Date: 1991
• Country: USA

The jellyfish was sent into space in order to examine stability and movement systems in gravity. They managed to reproduce in space and returned in a healthy form, but after returning to Earth, they had difficulty in harming gravity again.

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