Timeline for Rabbits in Space
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 0:12 | answer | added | Volker Moerbitz | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 15:05 | vote | accept | James Jenkins | ||
| Jun 8, 2017 at 14:05 | answer | added | called2voyage♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | Chad | @called2voyage - That would require alot of equipment for a few animals on the ISS... | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | called2voyage♦ | @Chad The paper I linked to says that the rabbits will be on a 1g centrifuge, so no weightlessness. (To be fair, it says they will be in various levels of g, up to and including 1g.) | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 18:54 | comment | added | Chad | A living and stressed rabbit will generally not eat or eat very little and will not reproduce. A short term space flight (like the apollo or even space shuttle missions) are not going to be long enough to get them over the stress and back healthy enough to study. Keeping a meat rabbit on the ISS would require alot of food and some way to deal with their droppings and urine. Im not sure how a rabbit is going to handle urinating in 0g | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | called2voyage♦ | @JamesJenkins Yes, I hope to compile it together later today. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @called2voyage the sum of your comments and links, are getting to be worthy of answer. While not complete it does address much of the question. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 13:48 | history | edited | called2voyage♦ |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | called2voyage♦ | According to this paper, rabbits are planned to be on the ISS sometime before 2025. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 19:18 | comment | added | called2voyage♦ | Searching the NASA domain, I found reference of lots of incidents of rabbits in space, but none with any detail. I did find one old document that mentioned that one of the cons of using rabbits for space experiments was their high susceptibility to stress. I do wonder though, why we would keep sending up rabbits if they died every time. Surely, the survivability must be at least half. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/659023491681886208 | ||
| Oct 26, 2015 at 20:47 | comment | added | James Jenkins | They can be scared to death but my personal rabbits travel all over the country by car with me, but more telling is that they came to Australia and the Americas in sailing ships that would have been just about as scary as a space launch. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | TildalWave | You mean so they're not literally scared to death during launch? I think they're mildly sedated for the first part of the trip, at least I seem to remember reading about that somewhere. I'll see if I can find it... | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 18:44 | history | asked | James Jenkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |