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Have they ever sent a ferret into space?

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Not that we know of, but there have been many other types of animals that have gone up:

  • February 20, 1947: Fruit flies were the first animals in space.
  • June 4, 1949: Albert II became the first monkey in space. Since then, 32 other monkeys been to space.
  • Aug. 15, 1950: The first mouse went to space. Many others followed.
  • Nov. 3, 1957: Laika the dog orbits the earth. (12 other dogs had been on subortibal flights before this.)
  • May 28, 1959: Able the rhesus monkey and Baker the squirrel monkey successfully returned to Earth after space flight.
  • July 2, 1959: The first rabbit goes to space, along with two dogs.
  • Aug. 19, 1960: Belka and Strelka the dogs, a gray rabbit, two rats, forty-two mice, and many fruit flies go into orbit and all come back okay.
  • Jan. 31, 1961: Ham the chimpanzee flew a Mercury capsule to space and back.
  • Nov. 29, 1961: Enos the chimpanzee flew a Mercury spacecraft into orbit and back.
  • Oct. 18, 1963: The first cat goes to space.
  • 1964 -1966: Rats go to space, along with more mice and dogs.
  • March 16, 1966: Veterok and Ugolyok the dogs orbited for 22 days and came back, setting the record for dogs in space.
  • 1968: Turtles make it to the moon! Well, two tortoises, and they just circled the moon and didn't land. But still. Some mealworms and wine flies went along too.
  • Late 1960s: Frog eggs, more insects, and a pig-tailed monkey go up in Biosatellites.
  • Early 70s: Fish go to space! Also Spiders, more rabbits, turtles, insects, and even jellyfish.
  • 1973: Arabella and Anita the spiders go to space aboard Skylab for 59 days.
  • Since then: lots of rodents.

Interestingly, there are satellites that are *called* ferret satellites, but they never actually carried the animal ferrets.

(See Space.com for more information on animals in space.)
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