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    ANIMALS IN SPACE

    Mar 01, 2019 2 minutes
    by Mary Bates

    Since the dawn of space exploration, animals have played a key role in testing the safety of spaceflight for humans. Scientists used animals to learn whether human astronauts could ever visit space and return to Earth unharmed. They also launched animals into space to study the effects of weightlessness, radiation, and other outer space perils on various biological processes. Without the help of many animals, humans may never have reached the moon. And we would be farther from the goal of sending

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