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The Last American Monkeys, Really a Russian Monkey
The last american russian monkeys went up in 19 96 a. It was on a biological satellite called beon 11. Two of them were going to go on board this biological satellite ou spend a couple of weeks in space with just animals on board. There were tremendous protests about monkeys gon this is 19 96, now, tremendous process about these russian monkeys. And from that point on, all of the monkey flights, the primate flights, stopped. The laws got tightened, so primates did not go up,. apart from maybe this eranian thing, which had nothing to do with russia and the united states, they stopped at that point.
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