For better or worse, humans have sent an ark's worth of other animals into space. This veritable zoo of space travelers includes dogs, mice, fish, tortoises, frogs, spiders and non-human primates. But ...

The astronauts arrived at the Tiangong space station on Oct. 29, beginning their six-month-long stay in orbit. They have since been joined by 15 adult fruit flies and 40 pupae, which arrived ...

Not long after it brought on a fresh crew of astronauts, China's Tiangong space station has received yet another group of new visitors: fruit flies. Now, the flies will be used to study the ...

Scientists continue to launch animals into the heavens to ... spending the money launching them into space." The investigators saw the fruit flies in simulated microgravity display accelerated ...

When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the ...

On June 14, 1949, a rhesus monkey named Albert II was launched into space aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico.

Animals have significantly contributed to space exploration by testing microgravity and radiation effects before human missions. Species such as fruit flies, monkeys, dogs, mice, guinea pigs ...

who added that the midlife mark for fruit flies is around 40 days. “This is something they do as a last-ditch effort, similar to zoo animals that have been isolated for 10 years.” Sperling ...

The fruit flies were chosen for their biological ... Belka and Strelka became the first animals to enter space and return alive. On August 19, 1960, these two Soviet space dogs were launched ...