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Monkey News Space Chimp 

(WARNING: Video contains swearing and British humour)

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Karl talking about the monkey who went to space motivated by bananas.



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Joseph Brady trained the first "astrochimp," which helped show that outer space was safe for astronauts.
In 1961, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration placed Ham, a three-year-old chimp, into a Mercury capsule atop a Redstone rocket and blasted him to a five-minute ride in space.
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The first ever monkey astronaut was Albert, a Rhesus Monkey, who on June 11, 1948 rode to over 63 km on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight.



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Researchers ground Belmont monkey study

Space officials have halted a controversial plan to zap more than a dozen monkeys with radiation and study them at a Belmont lab, according to a New York facility involved in the proposed experiments.
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Russian Cosmonaut Supports Animal Defenders International Opposition to NASA Primate Experimentation for Space Research

Celebrated Russian cosmonaut and Guinness Book of World Records holder Valentin Lebedev is the latest member of the aerospace industry to publicly oppose NASA's plans to test primates to investigate the effects of space radiation.
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As the Mars500 multi-part ground-based experiments begin in Moscow, Animal Defenders International (ADI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) speak out against NASA plans to use primates in experiments, a practice not utilised by NASA for decades.
On June 3, the world watched the commencement of the first Mars500 experiments on six human volunteers, meanwhile the controversy continues to heat up on the use of monkeys in spatial research. The Mars500 project, a 520-day simulation that seeks to emulate the confinement and isolation of a human mission to Mars is a cooperative project undertaken jointly by ESA and Russia.
However, if humans were sent to Mars, new technologies would be required to shield astronauts from space radiations. A letter received by ADI from ESA's Director Jean-Jacques Dordain revealed a wide-open rift between Europe and its U.S. counterparts on how to research this technology.
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European Space Agency Sides With Monkeys

The European Space Agency (ESA) is light years ahead of NASA in the compassion, technology, and common-sense departments. In a recent letter to Animal Defenders International, Jean-Jacques Dordain, the ESA's director general, stated that the ESA "declines any interest in monkey research and does not consider any need or use for such result."
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Animal rights activists, some dressed in monkey suits and posing in cages, will protest today at Belmonts McLean Hospital against a controversial Harvard Medical School study that involves zapping primates with massive doses of radiation.
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NASA plans to zap squirrel monkeys with radiation to see how cosmic rays might affect humans on a three-year trip to Mars.
But some doctors want it stopped.
A physicians' group petitioned the space agency Thursday to delay a $1.75 million NASA-funded experiment that would blast high-energy radiation at up to 27 squirrel monkeys.

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