Space Monkeys!
Remembering the Nonhuman Astronauts in US Space Exploration
$77.50
- Paperback
188 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2026
Summary
Before humans ever left Earth’s atmosphere, a handful of primates paved the way—earning fame and fascination but leaving behind a complicated and often highly debated legacy. As the Cold War intensified, the US space program turned to monkeys—Able, Baker, Ham, and Enos—to test and explore the limits of human survival in space. These animals became media sensations, museum exhibits, and symbols of American ingenuity, even as their suffering was often overlooked.
With insight and empath…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780817362522 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0817362525 |
| Author: | John Alexander Lynch |
| Publisher: | University Alabama Press |
| Imprint: | University Alabama Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 188 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique |
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Critics Review
“Lynch gathers together and analyzes a little-known and historically significant archive. Scholars of rhetoric, animal studies, bioethics, and space exploration alike will find Space Monkeys! both exhilarating and enlightening.” —Joshua Trey Barnett, author of Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence
“Space Monkeys! is an engagingly written book.” —Greg Dickinson, PhD, professor at Colorado State University
“By putting primate astronauts at the center, Lynch offers something truly remarkable: a new story about the US space program. Tragic, comic, and profound, Space Monkeys! offers a significant contribution to rhetorical history, public memory, and our understanding of humanity’s affective and ethical relations with the nonhuman world.” —Jenell Johnson, author of Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common
About The Author
John Alexander Lynch
John A. Lynch is professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati and author of What are Stem Cells?: Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics and The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong. He also serves as board member for Rhetoric of Health & Medicine and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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