Animals Back From Space
tti ZP.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PRINCE ALBERT (Saskatchewan), Aug. 3 A "space zoo" fell to earth today after 51 hours in the 'looer -atmosphere. Four capsules containing two monkeys, two hamsters and other forms of life were dropped by parachute from a research balloon into wild country. The animals were sent aloft from Goose Bav. Labrador. to test the effects of cosmic radiation in space as part of tests preparatory to a manned flight to the moon.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 21
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