Jan 22, 2010

Posted by in Mars, current

Mars: Monkeys first?

Guess who's going to Mars!

America sent monkeys into space before men. But Apollo sent men, not monkeys, to the moon.

According to a report late last year, Russia plans to send a monkey on a 520 day round trip flight to Mars. The Russians believe that the radiation would make such a trip by a human currently inadvisable.

The monkey would be fed and cared for by a robot. This could be problematic.

During a 1987 space mission a monkey named Yerosha damaged its “caretaker” robot.

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