TIMELINE ANIMAL MISSIONS THAT BLAZED THE TRAIL
Feb 17, 2022
2 minutes
June 1948
n 11 June 1948 in Project Albert, is launched aboard an American-built V2 missile from White Sands, New Mexico. Apart from some fruit flies in 1947, they are the first animals to ride rockets, sometimes reaching altitudes of 80 miles and higher.
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