Apparently some mad engineers called G.C. Johnson and J.W. Wilkey actually thought of sending pigs to space instead of monkeys or dogs. It was 1963. Imagine that ...
On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...
Do you like being poked, prodded, and analyzed? If you said yes, then you may have a future as an astronaut. Astronauts don’t just conduct scientific experiments, they are part of an experiment ...