---------------------------------------------------------------- Year Animal subject Flight profile ---------------------------------------------------------------- United States ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1958 Mice _Wickie_, 1400 miles. None of the three _Laska_, and flights were recovered. _Benji_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1958 Squirrel monkey 300-mile maximum altitude over a _Old Reliable_ 1300-mile distance via a Jupiter rocket. Not recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1959 Rhesus monkeys 300-mile maximum altitude over a _Able_ and _Baker_ 1500-mile distance via a Jupiter rocket. Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1959 Black mice 500 seconds of weightlessness in Discoverer III via a Thor-Able rocket. The Discoverer vehicle did not go into orbit and the animals were lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1959 Rhesus monkey 53-mile altitude in Little Joe. _Sam_ Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1960 Rhesus monkey 9-mile altitude in Little Joe. _Miss Sam_ Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1960 C-57 black mice 650-mile altitude over a 5000-mile distance via Atlas RVX-2A. Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1961 Chimpanzee _Ham_ 156-mile altitude over a 414-mile distance via a Redstone booster, Mercury capsule. Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1961 Chimpanzee _Enos_ 2 Earth orbits. 183 minutes of weightlessnessat an apogee of 146 miles anda perigee of 99 miles. Atlas booster, Mercury capsule. Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Soviet Union ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1958 Dogs _Belyanka_ 280-mile altitude in hermetically and _Pestraya_ sealed cabin. Recovered. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1959 Dog _Otyazhnaya_ Over 100-mile altitude. Recovered. and a rabbit ----------------------------------------------------------------