Fruit flies in space
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Fruit flies in space
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On a July 9, 1946, suborbital V-2 rocket flight, fruit flies became the first living and sentient organisms to go to space, and on February 20, 1947, fruit flies safely returned from a suborbital space flight, which paved the way for human exploration. Years before sending mammals into space, such as the 1949 flight of the rhesus monkey Albert II, the Soviet space dogs, or humans, scientists studied Drosophila melanogaster and its reactions to both radiation and space flight to understand the po
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First Earthlings launched into space
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_flies_in_space
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2021-01-11T20:24:03Z
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2024-09-11T16:54:31Z
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