Can birds fly in space?

A: Birds cannot fly in the vacuum of space because there is no air, but some birds have been brought to live on space stations before. American astronauts brought 32 chicken embryos to space on the Discovery STS-29 flight.
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Has there been any birds in space?

The cosmonauts kept trying, however. Finally, in 1990, the first healthy quail chick hatched on Mir, becoming not only the first bird in space, but the first vertebrate (that we know of) to be born outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Can birds fly with no gravity?

It doesn't have to expend any energy during the flight because gravity isn't pulling it down. The big advantage that a bird would have over human beings in this situation is its wings. Inside a space station full of air, the bird's wings and tail would still work fine.
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Can birds fly in Moon?

No birds can not fly on the moon because they could never get there. The moon is far far away and the US only landed there once. There is no heat, no air, no gravity to move or breath or keep warm. How will a bird fly to the moon?
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Can a fly fly in space?

Indeed they do! NASA astronauts have taken a wide variety of fliers into space. Here's what they observed: "Honey bees (Apis mellifica) were unable to fly normally and tumbled in weightlessness.
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Can a mouse survive in space?

Thanks to previous space missions, we know that mice adapt quickly to microgravity. They do all the things they normally would. They groom their fur, huddle together and interact with the other mice.
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Does ant survive in space?

A comparison group of ant colonies on Earth were able to spread out and survey the entire environment within five minutes. Because of the difficulties of microgravity, the space ants weren't able to cover all the territory within the same time period, but they still managed to spread out and see most of it.
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Can you flap in space?

The idea of a budgie flapping through the cosmos in a little space suit is quite splendid but physically impossible. Birds fly by sending a mass of air downward by the flap of their wings, with Newton's law of action and reaction producing a force upwards in response.
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Can ducks fly in space?

A: Birds cannot fly in the vacuum of space because there is no air, but some birds have been brought to live on space stations before. American astronauts brought 32 chicken embryos to space on the Discovery STS-29 flight.
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Can a bird fly in vacuum?

Without air, like in a vacuum, it is not possible to generate low and high pressure around a wing and so the bird cannot achieve lift.
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Can birds fly on Mars?

An open-beaked bird appears perched on a rock, poised for flight. If this rock were a real bird, it would need to learn new ways to fly. It might be easy to lift off in the weaker gravity of Mars, but staying in flight would be hard. That's because Mars has a thin atmosphere and low air pressure.
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Can birds fly out of Earth?

Many bird species live in habitats that are over 13,123 feet (4,000 m) above sea level, and others routinely fly to altitudes of approximately 10,000 to 13,000 feet (3,000 to 4,000 m), especially when they're migrating, said Graham Scott, an assistant professor of biology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
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Can eggs hatch in space?

While it's possible to lay an egg in orbit, successfully incubating one may prove more problematic. Only one bird has ever actually laid an egg in space. A quail aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-10 spacecraft laid an egg while travelling to the Mir space station in 1990.
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Did they send a chicken to space?

The British frozen-foods grocer Iceland Foods sent a chicken nugget 20.7 miles into space to celebrate the chain's 50th anniversary. The nugget took nearly two hours to reach its peak in the region known as near space, where temperatures can reach as low as minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
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What happens to an egg in space?

Re: What would happen to an egg in space? Explode, implode or scrambled? Most likely nothing will happen to egg, because egg shell can take quite a lot of pressure. However, the strong radiations may in modify the structure of the proteins inside the egg, perhaps the egg will look after a while as a boiled one.
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Has a dog gone to space?

Laika was the first living creature to orbit Earth. On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union lofted a dog named Laika aboard the satellite Sputnik 2. However, Laika was not the first animal in space.
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Can flamingos fly?

Flamingos travel at approximately 35 miles per hour (mph) over short distances, but they can fly upwards of 40 mph during long-distance flights with supportive winds.
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Which animal first went to space?

The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.
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Is the US flag still on the moon?

Images taken by a Nasa spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing. The photos from Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show the flags are still casting shadows - except the one planted during the Apollo 11 mission.
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Can the flag on the moon be seen from Earth?

Yes, the flag is still on the moon, but you can't see it using a telescope. I found some statistics on the size of lunar equipment in a Press Kit for the Apollo 16 mission. The flag is 125 cm (4 feet) long, and you would need an optical wavelength telescope around 200 meters (~650 feet) in diameter to see it.
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Can humans grow wings?

For instance, while you might grow taller thank your siblings, hox genes make sure you only grow two arms and two legs – and not eight legs like a spider. In fact, a spider's own hox genes are what give it eight legs. So one main reason humans can't grow wings is because our genes only let us grow arms and legs.
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Has a frog been to space?

NASA has sent some odd missions into space. Few sound stranger, though, than a craft that was launched 50 years ago today: OFO — Orbiting Frog Otolith. It carried a pair of male bullfrogs to study how their balance system adapted to life without gravity.
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Have they sent a cat to space?

Félicette, the only cat to have ever survived a sojourn into space, is now being recognized for her extraterrestrial achievements in the form of a bronze statue at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. The spacefaring feline was part of a 15-minute suborbital mission in 1963.
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How many frogs were sent to space?

The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which sent two bullfrogs into orbit on 9 November 1970 for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite.
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