A controversial NASA plan to irradiate squirrel monkeys to better understand the risks of long-duration spaceflight on humans appears to have been scrapped. NASA ordered the project removed from ...

NASA’s Brookhaven National Laboratory is coming under intense scrutiny this week following complaints that its forthcoming $1.75 million radiation experiment on monkeys violates a score of ...

Nevertheless, she recently connected with both PETA and Animal Defenders International, which oppose the monkey experiments, and the two organizations encouraged Evans to tell her story.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has obtained documents discussing a controversial NASA-funded project that would expose squirrel monkeys to radiation. PETA obtained the documents ...

NASA’s early monkey experiments aimed to study how mammals handle space travel. Some primates exhibited surprising adaptability, adjusting their movements and physiology to microgravity conditions.

At this point, the NASA monkey massacrists must have had a moment of remorse, because they began to give the monkeys their own names. Yorick died two hours after landing back on earth due to ...

Enter Sam, an eight-pound rhesus monkey. It was up to Thompson to recover Sam, or what remained of him, after the test flight. An original member of NASA’s Space Task Group, Thompson had been ...

This story was updated at 4:42 p.m. ET. A controversial NASA plan toirradiate squirrel monkeys tobetter understand the risks of long-duration spaceflight on humansappears tohave been scrapped.

Here’s how it works. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has obtained documents discussing a controversial NASA-funded projectthat would expose squirrel monkeys to radiation.

NASA ordered the project removed from consideration for lab time, although the space agency stopped short of saying the study had been canceled. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...