Planetary Pursuit #5: Animals in Space Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/21/2018
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This space themed geocache was placed during the 2018 Planetary Pursuit promotion. This cache is not at the posted coordinates, but you can park there. Please solve the puzzle to get the real coordinates.

A: On Feb. 20, 1947 the first animals in outer space were launched in a captured Nazi V-2 rocket. These animals reached an altitude of 68 miles and were recovered alive by parachute. What were these animals?
 8: Fruit flies
 9: Mice


B: A total of 32 monkeys have flown in space. On May 28, 1959, what two monkey’s became the first primates to successfully return to Earth after space flight?
 1: Able and Baker
 3: Ham and Enos


C: Soviet space dogs ________ and _______ orbited a record 22 days before landing safely on March 16, 1966. Their record for longest space flight by dogs still stands.
 1: Belka and Strelka
 3: Veterok and Ugolyok


X: NASA bread some 60,000 Jellyfish in space in an experiment to find out what?
 9: How Jellyfish would react to being released into the vacumm of space.
 8: How space born Jellyfish would react when brought to Earth.


Y: In 1973 two European garden spiders named Anita & Arabella were sent into space so researchers could find information about how spaceflights and weightlessness could impact their power of constructing webs. What station were they on?
 9: Skylab 3
 8: Salyut 7


Z: Nicknamed “Astro-Cat,” what French feline was the first cat to be sent into space by any country and the only one who survived the experiment?
 9: Celeste
 1: Félicette
Insert coordinates in this format for the Certitude checker: (N 38° 40.ABC W 077° 20.XYZ).


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