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posted by hubie on Tuesday July 05 2022, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the through-you-we-feel-as-hamsters dept.

Japanese company launches hamster into the stratosphere as part of space travel experiment

PETALING JAYA, June 24 — A hamster has safely returned home after a trip into the stratosphere via a flying balloon.

The experiment was carried out by Japanese company Iwatani Giken as part of its goal to make space travel accessible to the masses.

The hamster was placed in an airtight plastic cabin and lifted off with a balloon at Miyakojima city in Okinawa on June 9, said the company in a recent media statement.

The cabin was monitored during the test flight to ensure that oxygen levels, atmospheric pressure and temperature were the same as on the ground.

The company added that a camera installed in the cabin showed that the creature was comfortably snoozing during its flight.

[...] According to The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, the firm's next experiment will be a manned test flight to a maximum altitude of 25 kilometres.

One small step for a hamster, one giant leap for hamsterkind. I wonder what stories he shares with his hamster buddies.


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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @10:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @10:37AM (#1258209)

    First they strap a hamster into an airtight plastic cabin which terrifies him so much he passes out for the whole flight, then when he returns to earth they chop him up into sushi for lunch.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @01:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @01:39PM (#1258251)

    4chan's /b/ sent a Toad into 'space' a decade ago. https://imgur.com/a/VwP3FCH [imgur.com] .. The froggie was give sufficient vodka as compensation.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @01:55PM (#1258253)

    gorzila jr conquers space

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @03:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2022, @03:19PM (#1258274)

    At last, a Space Hamster!

    Is it a Miniature Giant Space Hamster, by any chance?

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