The Space Monkey Research Paper The Space Monkey was a good thing because it helped our space exploration and he was the first to send an animal into space. NASA should keep exploring space and do whatever it takes to do it even if that means an animal going through harsh training for preparation to the next mission. The Space Monkey started a fire because it was the first animal in space for the U.S., the training and preparation, helped NASA’s space era, and people were up set for animal cruelty. The Space Monkey was the first animal into space for the U.S. The Space Monkey was also known as “Ham”, by his close friends and trainers. Then came that final day and that everyone new Ham would make history. “Ham woke up on January 31, 1961 like the average human did that day” (Life). He ate is breakfast and went on to finish the mission he was born to do. “He then boarded a NASA space capsule and was shot into space at thousands of miles per hour he then traveled more than 150 miles above Earth’s surface” (Life). The mission lasted about a little over 15 minutes. After everybody around the world heard about the mission being a success, they started to do the same. NASA and their employees started to train their animals a lot more to be able to make the mission there and back alive. Ham was one of the animals they started to train more and better. He was a quick, easy learner, and had fun with it. “What made Ham so unique and different than all the other animals was that he was trained on how to use the equipment and to stay away from electrical hazards if a malfunction or a circuit board were to overheat or blow up” (Animals in Space). Ham’s trainers worked very hard day after day, week after week on preparing him so he could s... ... middle of paper ... ...y, it helped NASA in their space race and exploration, and many people thought it was animal cruelty for Ham the Space Monkey. This was a big thing in the 1960’s and did start a fire. NASA could have used no animal cruelty and still have got Ham into space. NASA did an outstanding job on preparing for this in the early 1960’s, and it was a great day for all of us when Ham came back to Earth on January 31, 1961 and came back alive, as a hero to all of us. Works Cited "Animals in Space." Animals in Space. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2014. "Life." LIFE. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014. Mungin, Lateef, and Mitra Mobasherat. "Iran Claims 2nd Launch of Monkey into Space and Back." CNN. Cable News Network, 14 Dec. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2014. "PETA Blasts Iran’s 1960s-Era Space Program." PETA PETA Blasts Irans 1960sEra Space Program Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014.
The information that animals have provided scientists over the past decades has changed society, and is still changing society for the better. Millions of lives have been saved with the use of animal testing and many more will be saved with continued research. However, there are many who dismiss this monumental achievement completely and oppose the use of animals in laboratory research. Though many find this practice to be
Throughout situations and research conducted by not only Robert Sapolsky or Jane Goodman, but from many other credited sources, we can blatantly see the, if not identical, similarities between the two species of humans and baboons. The most apparent likewise characteristics of this can be read and documented in Professor Sapolsky’s book, A Primate’s Memoirs. Sapolsky, who spent hundreds if not thousands, of hours studying these Savanna Baboons, sheds a vast insight into ideas of social dominance, mating strategies, instinctual prowess, community settings, hygiene, and reform of an entire generation; many of which can be unknowingly seen directly in the common occurrence of a humans daily life.
In the mid-1980’s, the shuttle space program was the focus of the political media since it had failed to deliver on its exp...
Viewing and observing primates at the zoo and using them as a research subject is crucial to help with the understanding of how humans came to be. Since humans and primates are onwards of 95% genetically similar (Why are Humans Primates), observing them is a great tool to better understand humans and the relationship we share with primates. Though some research done on primates has questioned the morality of such a thing, by not observing our closest ancestors, we would not have many of the answers about humans that we have today. Non-human primates can teach us many things about ourselves, from evolution,to behavioral and social characteristics.
After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. So they each hired the top rocket scientists from Germany to help with their research. After they hired them both sides were making a lot of progress. The Space Race began in 1955 when the Americans announced that they would start launching satellites into orbit. The Soviets took the US announcement as a challenge and established a group whose goal was to beat the US in putting a satellite into orbit. Even though the United States started the competition the Soviets still won because they launched the first successful satellite into orbit, put a dog into outer space and also put the first man into outer space. Some might say that the United States won because they put the first man on the moon, which was a huge feat made by the Americans. So for winning many missions against the U.S. the Soviets won the Space Race.
Let’s look at the cold hard numbers to start. In the last ten years, NASA has managed to: create 18,000 jobs, save 444,000 lives, reduce costs by $4.9 billion, and generate $5.1 billion in revenue. If that doesn’t start to make you feel good about NASA, try...
Lambright, W.H. (2010). Exploring Space: NASA at 50 and beyond. Administration Review, 170 (1), pp. 151-157.
The pet store was selling them for 5¢ a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys. I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing. I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall.Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys. I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys. I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad. I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad. I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom.
There’s been a very strong theory put out recently. It shows that when both Mars and Earth were very young, and creating microbial life, an asteroid hit Mars. So violently in fact that it ejected some of Mars back into space with it. Eventually landing on Earth the surviving Mars bacterium merged with our microbial ancestors to form DNA, the very building blocks of life. This really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. In all actuality it solidifies the notion that we were born to return to the stars. From a young age we are always looking up eyes wide. So why is it that now, after billions of years, we have opposition against the one government program who’s sole intention is to take us there.
The 1960’s were full of questions, and one of the biggest questions the world was pondering about was regarding the Space Race: was the USA going to beat their communist enemy, the Soviet Union? The Space Race was a series of events that helped to symbolize and determine in the worlds’ eyes which form of government was better, communism (Soviets) or democracy (United States)? In the beginning of the race, the Soviets had the lead, and it was not looking good for America. Then the United States picked up the pace and spent well over eight billion dollars funding the space studies. This period of time made many scientists and astronauts heroes in the eyes of Americans. The Space Race was a combination of determination, intelligence, space projects, and American pride, all used to reach our exploration goals and surpass the Soviets.
The Space Race began when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space in 1957. The United States’ answer to this was the Apollo program. While the Apollo program did have successful launches, such as the Apollo 11 launch that landed Americans on the moon, not every launch went as smoothly. Fifty years ago, a disaster occurred that shook the Apollo program to its core. On January 27, 1967, the Apollo 1 command module was consumed by a fire during one of its launch rehearsal tests. This led to the death of three astronauts, Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Bruce Chaffee. The fire was caused by a number of factors, most of which were technical. These causes range from the abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere of the
The space race was an important time in history, for the U.S, USSR, and the rest of the world. Soon after World War II, the Soviet Union and United States began a global battle, communism against democracy. Space became a huge entity in the "war." Each side spend billions on besting each other's achievements in what later became known as the famous "Space Race."
They are often seen cutie and highly intelligent animals. Also, there are many different species that have their abilities. They are hairy animals; they make noises such as when a person is getting tickled by someone else. Some of them live on ground while the others live in trees. They are also the animals that appear on the Chinese zodiac.
Her discoveries made a major contribution to the biological community, paving the way for others, and well as earned her many awards. Not much about chimpanzees was known, or studied, on the mid-1900s before Jane came along. At the time, these animals were mainly unbothered by curious humans. But the height of the space research program involving chimps went from the early 1950s to the early 1960s, right around the time Jane first ventured to Africa ("Air and Space | Research | Release & Restitution for Chimpanzees"). They were used to test gravity force as well as other conditions expected in space travel. Furthermore, Jane was not the only scientist to be studying the monkey family behaviorism, though she is certainly the most well known. An additional scientist at work around the same time was Francine Patterson. With permission form the San Francisco Zoo, she started to train a one-year-old gorilla American Sign Language. Patterson, still alive and well today, founded The Gorilla Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the preservation of lowland gorillas (“Ape Women: 10 Dedicated Primate Researchers”). Similarly, Sally Boysen is also renowned for teaching chimps to read and write using English words and letters, as well as studying their cognitive development (“Chimps R Us”). Yet another scientist and conservationist, Birute Galdikas, was working with orangutans around 15years after Jane’s most prominent work with chimpanzees. Galdikas dedicated her life to the safety and wellbeing of the animals entrusted to her (“Birute
For many years now, animals have been used for testing and experimentation. Many organizations like PETA and the ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation) strongly oppose the topic of animals being experimented on. Many people are against animal testing as a whole because not only does it harm animals, but many times they may be killed. There have been many countless years and protests against testing, and they deserved to be heard and listened to. People have begun to realize that not only does animal testing harm and kill animals every year; it has been pretty much useless.