Labels:text | clothing | sports equipment | person | helmet OCR: SENDING ANIMALS INTO SPACE AFTER THE FIRST successful satellites had CHIMPNAUT been launched, scientists wanted to send During the USA's Mercury human beings into space. However, they did program, chimpanzees, such as not yet know if people could survive Ham, trained to be astronauts. spaceflight. The first space traveler was, therefore, a Soviet dog named Laika. Apes soon followed, and since then, many species of animals have been into space, yielding much information on the effects of space travel. Ham the chimpanzee LAIKA Sputnik 2's signals indicated that Laika suffered no ill effects while alive. Sadly, her air supply ran out after a week and she died. SEE Laika's restraining seat NEXT ALSO
