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Second Monkey Travels Safely To Space And Back, Iran Reports

16 Dec , 2013 by

Iran’s space program reportedly launched its second monkey into space on a 15-minute flight on Saturday (Dec. 14). Reports from the Islamic Republic News Agency said the ballistic flight reached as high as 75 miles (120 kilometers). That’s just beyond the Karman line of 62 miles (100 kilometers) that many authorities cite as the boundary of […]

NASA to Fund Primate Radiation Research

16 Nov , 2009 by

Monkeys have made contributions to spaceflight before, and NASA plans to start using them again to test the effects of radiation exposure on their performance of various tasks. With renewed efforts to send humans to the Moon and Mars – which exposes them to radiation from the Sun and galactic cosmic rays – NASA wants […]

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