to check if animals can survive there
yes
Yes, it can. I sent my pet monkey to NASA and they didn't send it back, so I assumed they sent it to space. :]
Iran plans to send a monkey to space in the near future (as of February 2011). Iran also plans to send a man/men to space within 2017 to 2022 (different reports provide different dates). Already, Kavosghar 3 (Explorer 3) has carried turtles, rat, worms to space for Iran.
No Japan did not send a monkey to the moon
A monkey is close to a human so it was to see how a human type system would react into space. Plus, if there had been an accident a monkey would have been lost and not a human. Monkeys can also be trained to do things that would be needed as well.
It was a monkey named Al. Shepard Jr, But the first living thing were fruit flies.
A monkey.
a monkey was never sent to space, NASA wanted to send a monkey to space and specifically to mars but, the government didn't agree to it.
Only if it's a space monkey in a dog suit
The first US space animal was a rhesus monkey, Albert II, on June 14, 1949. Later tests in 1950 used mice.
There was no monkey send to the moon.
Gleek was the monkey's name.