Talk:Animals in space

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The link I copied it from said "Japanese killfish". Other sites have refered to "killifish". Are these the same? Are they the same as medaka? Rmhermen 22:35, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

• i was/am also uncertain. Badanedwa 05:57, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

Just a nitpick if anyone cares, there's a comment about a chimpanzee being the first primate in space, but Alan Shepard apparently beat him there. And I'm pretty sure humans are primates. User:Thaddeus_Selden 17:26, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC).

I'm also pretty sure Gagarin beat Sheperd into space; and I think Soviet cosmonauts are primates too. Conquistador48134.50.14.31 14:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which is right?

The first animals in space were fruit flies

The first animal in orbit was the Soviet dog Laika onboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November, 1957. Laika died during the flight. At least 10 other dogs were launched into orbit and numerous others on sub-orbital flights before April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. (See Russian space dogs)

is it just me, or do those two statments confradict each other? Or, is it that there were penty of animals befor Laika, but none of them went into orbit? if so, could someone edit Space race Animals in space section please tooto 17:34, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This is correct. Many animals went into space (over 100 km high, suborbital) before Laika who was the first to go into orbit. Both this article and Space race give the correct information. Rmhermen 19:54, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

Wouldn't this depend on how high you define "space"?

No this is using the international definition of space. Please in future ask questions on the talk page before changing the article. Rmhermen 13:49, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mouse or monkey: which came first?

From this article: "Althought it´s higly probable that microbes survived the on the interior of the first man made object sent to space, the first living being intentionally sent to space was a mouse. On August 31, 1950 the U.S. launched a mouse into space (137 km) aboard a V2"

From monkeys in space: "Albert was followed by Albert II who survived the V2 flight but died on impact on June 14, 1949. Albert II became the first monkey in space as his flight reached 134 km (83 miles)."

If you read these two articles, it implies that the first animal sent into space was a mouse, who was sent over a year after the first monkey in space. So, which is correct? 198.164.41.62 01:46, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[1]--WEKS 07:30, 2005 August 4 (UTC)

You did notice that that is the unvandalized version of our own article that you linked to! Rmhermen 14:09, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

The problem arose because a vandal erased the beginning of this article. I have now restored it. The first animal in space were fruit flies in 1946. Rmhermen 14:07, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

There was a link to "first man in space". I made it point to Yuri Gagarin directly. I don't know if that is the correct thing to do or if I should have made "first man in space" a forwarding page to Yuri Gagarin. But I didn't know how to do that so I thought this would suffice =)