KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -"We use animals for biomedical research in space for the same reason that we use [them] for biomedical research here on Earth, ‘’ Robinson said. “It’s a way of having a large sample size to study processes that you couldn’t study in a human or that would take too long to study in a human."

Detailed explanation-2: -Soviet rocket scientists wanted to send dogs to space to better understand what launch, microgravity and other aspects of spaceflight might do to a human body.

Detailed explanation-3: -Without animal testing in the early days of the human space program, the Soviet and American programs could have suffered great losses of human life. These animals performed a service to their respective countries that no human could or would have performed.