{"id":8172,"date":"2021-12-11T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=194548"},"modified":"2021-12-11T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:15:13","slug":"animals-in-space-from-laika-to-jellyfish-tortoises","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/animals-in-space-from-laika-to-jellyfish-tortoises\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish &amp; tortoises\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 11 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Thousands of animals paved the way for human space travel. But for many of them, it was an incredibly painful \u2013\u00a0or deadly \u2013 experience. Stephen Walker tells Rhiannon Davies about this overlooked chapter of space exploration, from Soviet space dogs strapped to rockets and chimpanzees sent up by NASA, to two tortoises who orbited the moon.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-194548-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Animals_in_space-d75f262.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Animals_in_space-d75f262.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2021\/12\/Animals_in_space-d75f262.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Stephen Walker is the author of <em>Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/beyond-the-astonishing-story-of-the-first-human-to-leave-our-planet-and-journey-into-space\/9780008372507&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Beyond-Astonishing-Story-Planet-Journey\/dp\/B08T5M292W?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/beyond\/stephen-walker\/9780008372507&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/animalsinspace-fromlaikatojellyfish-tortoises\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Saturday, 11 December 2021 at 12:00 am Thousands of animals paved the way for human space travel. 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