[Houshalter]

Wtf is with the only two animal experiments being on dogs and chimps? I am ok with animal research, but on dogs? Or chimps which are closer to humans than any other animal? This research isn't even necessary. Everyone already knew going into the vacuum of space was bad.

[daeken]

> Everyone already knew going into the vacuum of space was bad.

That line of thinking leads to a complete lack of actual science. As the article points out: going into the vacuum of space is nowhere near as bad as is conventionally thought. That's an incredibly valuable finding, and it gives us the information we need to create effective safety and recovery mechanisms in space.

[Houshalter]

Well after you tried it on the first 5 dogs, why go for 120 more? And then 6 chimps after that? (I think those are what the numbers were IIRC.) And regardless the knowledge isn't terribly useful. We have a slightly more accurate timescale on how quickly people die in a certain (very rare and specific) way. And it's still not enough to actually do anything realistically.