The sacrifice of innocent beings for science

Until now humanity has taken the number of 628 people to space, it is a few if we consider that the first human traveled to space 62 years ago, but the number of non-human animals that have gone into space is practically incalculable from mice, dogs, cats, apes, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, you name it, the entire zoo was up there.

Dozens of other animal species reached space before us, monkeys, crab-eating macaques, mice, fruit flies, puppies, all kinds of insects, rabbits, guinea pigs, chimpanzees, etc., etc., are the anonymous heroes who paved our way. into space against their will.

Many will wonder why the hell we send all those animals, is that now space travel may seem very normal, practically every week there are several launches of private companies and anyone who has a lot of money can schedule their trip on a Blue rocket Origin or SpaceX and see the round earth through the window, but before that, a time when we didn't even know if it was possible.

We launched many rockets but we were not sure that a living thing could survive the trip, the space outside our atmosphere was unknown territory, historically we have been cowards when it comes to radically innovative inventions.

The first hot air balloon was tested in 1783 with a sheep, a duck and a rooster on board, we already knew that the radiation was more intense outside of our atmosphere, but we did not know if it was tolerable or deadly, so in 1947 it was launched fruit flies aboard a German B2 rocket salvaged by the United States at the end of World War II, he used salvaged Nazi rockets because he didn't yet know how to make them.

But they had the man who had designed them Wernher von Braun for making Nazi rockets, he obtained US citizenship at the end of the war and became the architect of the Saturn 5 rocket that took the first men to the Moon, the rocket with the mosquitoes on board reached the 109 kilometers of altitude crossing the carman line at 100 km where it is internationally considered that space begins, so some humble fruit flies became the pioneers of the last frontier and on top of that they survived to tell the tale, don't get used to that.

That gave us hope that one day we could travel to space, so we continued experimenting with other animals more similar to us, this time mammals, Alberto the second was called the resus macaque that became the first mammal in space, maybe you ask what happened to Alberto first, or the poor thing by the time they launched the rocket had probably already died of heat or suffocation, so for Alberto the second they redesigned the capsule and it was launched in 1949 on another B2 rocket recovered from Germany.

The macaque equipped with sensors that transmitted its vital signs to the ground reached an altitude of 134 kilometers, but unfortunately its parachute failed during re-entry, Alberto III was a crab-eating macaque aboard another b2 rocket that unfortunately exploded before reaching space, Alberto IV He did reach space, but again the parachute failed and the same fate as the rest of the Albertos, salty to the name of Alberto.

This has been repeated innumerable times, both by the United States and the Soviets with the first being the famous Laika dog and other nations such as France that released the kitten named Felicette that was sadrified for studies; instead of so much recognition and statues we could, I don't know, not do terrible things to animals to make them Heroes or Martyrs, just an opinion

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