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Did the US sacrifice any animals before they sent a human to space?

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boulos3y ago· 2 in thread

Yes, mostly mice and primates.

NASA also used quite a bit of Airforce research that used Bears: https://medium.com/@shermikeholmes88/why-the-u-s-air-force-e...

IIRC Ham was a returning hero.

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