Incredibly, 32 monkeys and apes have been to space, including the rhesus macaque, pig-tailed monkey, cynomolgus monkey, squirrel-tailed monkey and chimpanzee.
The very first was a rhesus macaque called Albert II. In 1949 he reached 134km, but sadly died on impact when re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere due to a parachute failure.
He was preceded by Albert I a year earlier, who suffocated within his cramped capsule before it had even left the ground.
Credit : Discover Wildlife
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