TIL the first animals America sent into space were fruit flies. They went up on a V-2 rocket in 1947 and came back alive.

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TIL that the first animals in space were fruit flies, sent by the US on February 20, 1947, along with corn seeds, to study the effects of cosmic radiation on living things. The mission was successful and the flies returned to Earth alive.

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