NASA's weird plan to nuke monkeys

Planet of the ape zappers

October 31, 2009

The space agency is beefing up its space-radiation studies with controversial new experiments in Long Island using monkeys as subjects for the first time in decades, according to the Discovery News(...)

The study will rely on 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys that will be exposed to low doses of the type of radiation astronauts traveling to Mars can expect to encounter.....

Source: Planet of the ape zappers

Link: PCRM: Ask Administrator Bolden to Stop the Use of Monkeys in Space Radiation Studies