If Iran has indeed launched a monkey to space, the nation is following a path similar to that taken by the United States in the early days of its space program. Iran announced today (Jan. 28) that it ...

On May 28, 1959, a rhesus monkey named Able, plucked from a zoo in Independence, Kansas, and a squirrel monkey named Baker, made history as the first mammals to survive space flight. Strapped into ...

Soon after Iranian officials announced they'd sent a monkey to space, close observers started wondering if the Iranians had been, as the saying goes, just monkeying around. Photos published by the ...

State media claims humans are next. Jan. 28, 2013 — -- Iran has successfully launched a rocket carrying a monkey into space, according to Iranian state media, in what Iranian officials call a ...

Fifty years ago today, the monkeys Able and Baker were placed inside the nose cone of a missile and launched to an altitude of 360 miles, on a suborbital flight that lasted just 16 minutes. They weren ...

Iran has successfully launched a monkey into space for the second time on Dec. 14 and returned it safely to Earth after a 15-minute rocket ride, according to Iranian officials. Iran's space monkey — ...

Scientists in China have unveiled plans to send monkeys into space to have sex. The research will be carried out on China's new Tiangong space station to improve our understanding of how animals adapt ...

Before they were sedated and loaded into the nose cone of a stubby Jupiter missile, the monkeys Able and Baker were just the latest in a growing number of rocket-test animals who, more often than not, ...

New video and pictures of monkeys being sent into space by NASA at the start of the space race have emerged. A video created by NASA in January 1961 shows Ham, a chimpanzee who was trained to operate ...

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