The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC ... The largest among them is a 2,000-square-foot lab that will provide open, shared space for several investigators and features six biosafety ...

If you never thought you'd live to see a gorilla menacing crew members on the International Space Station (ISS) in zero-gravity, think again. Okay, so it's not a real gorilla. But it's arguably ...

Last month Hamid Fazeli, head of the Iranian Space Agency, told of the nation’s intention to send a primate into space. He said the “testing phase of these living capsules has ended and ...

Iran's claim that it successfully sent a monkey into orbit has been called into question after the release of contrasting before-and-after pictures of the primate space traveller. The images, obtained ...

The space race didn’t end with his flight, though. Although NASA said that they had put a primate into space, the Russians argued that the flight was only sub-orbital — in other words ...

The first primate astronaut was Albert, a rhesus monkey, who suffocated in a V2 rocket after reaching 62 kilometers, short of the 100 kilometers required to reach space. But the first monkey in ...

Iran's claim that it successfully sent a monkey into orbit has been called into question after the release of contrasting before-and-after pictures of the primate space traveller. The images ...