Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has had a busy few weeks, first announcing a new partnership with the European Space Agency to send a lunar rover to search for water at the Moon’s south pole by 2020. But now, Roscosmos has announced it wants to go a bit further first by sending a team of trained rhesus monkeys to the red planet.
Right now, a squad of future monkey cosmonauts are training three hours a day at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, learning how to operate controls and solve simple math problems.
Scientists prize rhesus monkeys for their intelligence and because they can live for up to 25 years, Kozlovskaya and her team hope that their furry students will quickly learn how to survive a six-month-long mission to Mars.
While Kozlovskaya works on training her monkeys for Mars, a crew of six Russian women are spending this week locked inside a mock spaceship to see how well a team of all-female astronauts might handle the upcoming Moon mission in 2029.
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