Walker: They picked dogs from the streets of Moscow. : How did the Soviet Union select the dogs that they sent up to space? (Image credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Laika in the Sputnik 2 capsule before launch in 1957. Every single one of those monkeys were killed. The project consisted of six separate flights, each of which had a rhesus monkey inside the nose cone of a V2 rocket. In 1948, they started Project Albert - a seminal moment in the history of space flight. launched some 40 miles into the upper atmosphere on a V2 rocket. So, in order to find out, what they had to do was send up animals - starting with some fruit flies in 1947, which the U.S. However, there were a lot of things that they just did not know about space or how the human body would respond to the kind of velocity needed to achieve Earth orbit. And, frankly, the next battle ground between the Soviet Union and the United States. Walker: In 1947, the cold war had begun and, at this point, it was becoming very obvious that the next frontier is space. : Why do you think animals were first sent up to space? It all started with fruit flies in 1947 and continues to this day in 2021, with baby squid being the most recently launched in June, aboard a Dragon cargo capsule as part of a SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station. So, an enormous variety of animals have gone to space. In 2011, two spiders - Esmeralda and Gladys - were studied on the International Space Station and were able to adapt to weightless conditions and created quite weirdly beautiful space webs to catch flies to survive.
The Soviets sent two tortoises around the moon in 1968, shortly before Apollo 8.
Honey bees were sent up to understand if and how they construct a hive or make honey in space - and they did. Some other examples include frogs, which were sent to space for balance research in weightlessness.
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