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November 9, 2007
Q. From the early space program, can you name some of the “wrong” species that had the “right stuff”?
A. Wrong in that many of these “guinea pigs” died or were sacrificed by scientists to study the effects of weightlessness on living organisms, says “New Scientist magazine. In June 1957, Laika was the most famous dog in the world when the Soviet Union launched her into space aboard Sputnik 2, but she faced an equally rapid demise a few hours later when her spacecraft malfunctioned.
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