Авиация / Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Название: Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle
Авторы: C. Burgges, C. Dubbs
Издательство: Springer Praxis
Год: 2007
Страниц: 352
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 10 MB

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.