KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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first humans in space
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first animal in space
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happened same time
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neither happened
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first animals to reach space were fruit flies that the United States launched aboard captured German rockets in 1947. The first mammal to reach space was a rhesus monkey named Albert II, who flew two years later. Both these missions were suborbital, as were all animal flights for about a decade.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first vertebrates sent into space were a series of ill-fated monkeys and mice launched between 1948 and 1951 by American researchers. On June 14, 1949, a Rhesus monkey named Albert II blasted to an altitude of 83 miles in a V-2, surviving the flight but dying on impact.