Animals in Space From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle /

• Main Authors: Burgess, Colin (Author), Dubbs, Chris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Popular works.; Automotive engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science, general.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Automotive Engineering.; History, general.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precurso...

Table of Contents:

• Taming the rockets: From wrath to research
• Holloman and the Albert Hall of Fame
• Pioneers of destiny: The suborbital dog flights
• High-altitude research
• Able and Baker lead the way
• The most famous dog in history
• Prelude to manned space flight
• Pioneers in a weightless world
• Biting the hand
• Cosmos/Bion: The age of the biosatellites
• End of an era
• Shuttling into space
• Epilogue.