While there aren't any rhesus macaques on Mars, these monkeys were, ironically, making space flights at the time - only on rockets, not saucers. NASA first launched a male rhesus macaque ...

Miss Baker the monkeynaut was a celebrity during her years at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. She was brought to Huntsville ...

Albert (I through V) The first living beings shot into space were fruit flies, in 1947. A year later, NASA put a male rhesus monkey, Albert, into a V-2 rocket. Albert died, possibly suffocating ...

according to a brief history of animals in space on the agency’s website. For example, a rhesus monkey named “Miss Sam” was ...

Captive rhesus macaques are not naturally aggressive, but poor husbandry and handling practices can trigger their aggression toward conspecifics and toward the human handler. The myth of the ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...

Reducing their cage space by 75% with the movable back wall was sufficient ... Venipuncture of a paired female rhesus monkey in her homecage with her companion. Mean serum cortisol concentrations did ...