Why We Send Animals to Space

Описание: What happens when you send a duck, a rooster and a sheep with monkeys and dogs into space? Scientists had to find out -- and for decades, they’ve been studying life in space with the help of some crawly, wiggly, fluttery, furry friends.

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Sources:
http://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part1...
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf
http://www.space.com/16595-montgolfie...
http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5980137/why-do...
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstude...
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2004/fe...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/ne...
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Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sh...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sta...