• Question: Which animals have been to space? ;)

    Asked by Amy to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 15 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by spacefan226.
    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      Tortoises, Monkeys, Dogs, Zebra fish, jumping spiders, rabbit, mice, fruit flies, cat, frogs, rats, guinea pigs, crickets, newts, snails, carp, medaka, oyster toadfish, sea urchins, swordtail fish, various insect and quail eggs, brine shrimp, jellyfish, silkworms, bees, ants, killerfish, waterbears, cockroach, butterflies and geckos.

      Tortoises went around the moon and saw it before humans on Apollo – google Zond5. They are the best!

      (I was on console for many including the jumping spiders. The Americans gave them names and on Earth they usually jump and land on their food but in space they jumped and just kept floating by haha so they had to figure out how to move in space and they did but it was funny at first. Also gross because spiders.. almost all spiders in Australia can kill you so I’m not a fan).

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