Mammals in Space

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Mammals in Space

• 1. Dogs
• 2. Monkeys
• 3. Gerbils
• 4. Humans

Danielle Carmack, Elizabeth Horan, Agnieszka
Smelkowska-BlackWolf Jessica
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SOVIET SPACEPROGRAM

• Classified Military Program
• Sputnik Launched
• In 1957
• Led Space Race
• Animal Tests Followed

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SSP LAIKA

• Stray From Moscow
• 3 Years Old
• Weight 13 Pounds
• Launched 11/3/57
• Sputnik 2
• Nicknamed Muttnik

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SPP Results

• Death (cover up)
• Stress Overheating
• Proved Survival of Orbital Launch
• Led to Human
• Space Flight
• Data Living Organism Reaction

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AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM

• Response to Sputnik
• Space Race (1958)
• Astronauts become
• National heroes
• Culminated with the
• Landing on the
• Moon
• Decline in the 1970s

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ASP Alberts

• SMALL PRIMATES
• ALBERT I (1948 )
• ALBERT II (1949)
• RHESUS
• MONKEYS
• - EASY HANDLING
• - SMALL SIZE

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ASP results

• PRIMATES PERISHED
• FIRST ONES TO
• RETURN TO EARTH
• ABLE MISS BAKER
• (1959)
• MAMMALS
• CAN SURVIVE IN
• ZERO-GRAVITY

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Russian SpaceProgram

• Renewed interest in
• space exploration
• Goal Manned
• Mission to Mars
• 2015
• Previous failures
• (1960s 1996)

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Why Gerbils?

• Mammals
• Size
• Water Retention
• Little Waste
• Long life Span

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Results

• Little Data On Return
• Some Dissected
• American
• Mission To
• mars (Date TBD)
• New Space
• Race?

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Human Astronauts

• Space Flight
• Internationally
• 62 Miles
• U.S. 50 miles
• 1 Year Training
• 60 70 inches tall
• Visual 20/50
• Blood Pressure gt140

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Manned Missions

• HUMAN ASTRONAUTS (2007)
• 463 Humans From 34 Countries
• 415 Men 48 Women
• 83 Years in space
• Sergei Krikalev
• 2.2 years in Space

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conclusion

• Mammals
• Mission to Moon
• Mars Next Step
• One way Flight to Mars
• Distance 48 Million Miles
• Shuttle Speed 65,000 miles/Day
• 48,000,000/65,000 76 Days

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Thank You