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While Iran is a little bit behind in sending a monkey into space, it got us thinking, why do we send animals into space?
Sending animals to space. We did it decades ago, but now we're hearing that Iran may have sent a rhesus monkey up AND they say they were able to bring the monkey back alive! But now, information is coming out calling all that into question-- that the animal actually died in space, or the mission never actually happened. But why send animals at all? What does it teach us?
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1404137/Joseph-Michel-and-Jacques-Etienne-Montgolfier
http://www.space.com/17764-laika-first-animals-in-space.html
http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html
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