Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became ...

Fruit flies were the first animals of any kind to leave the planet. Fruit flies make good experimental subjects because they're remarkably similar to humans at the genetic and cellular levels. They'd ...

On June 11, 1948, a rhesus monkey named Albert I become the first animal to reach space, strapped aboard a V-2 Blossom rocket that flew to a suborbital height of 83 miles (134 kilometers) above ...

In 1961, Ham became the first chimpanzee in space when he made a sub-orbital flight aboard a US Mercury-Redstone rocket. To test his psychological capacity during space flight, Ham was trained to ...

The borough opened its first public animal shelter last month -- 24 years after plans for it were first set in motion -- as abandoned pets continue to overwhelm the city’s already packed system.

First Animal in Orbit Laika, the first living dog in orbit aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, perished but contributed essential data for future space missions. Credit : PINTEREST ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Laika was a Russian dog who was sent on a one-way trip into space and has become a symbol for the use of animals in scientific testing which has been shared online ...

Since 1948, 32 monkeys and apes, including rhesus macaques and chimpanzees, have been sent to space. Ham, a chimpanzee, was the first great ape in space, launched by NASA in 1961 and returned safely.