Dr. Elmo Dooley, a Tech professor and several students conducted a “cosmouse” experiment on May 22, 1970. A mouse was installed in a rocket, which was shot 3,000 feet into the air to see what would happen to the mouse’s heart and respiratory rates. Both increased. Cosmouse passed from age one year after the launch. The event drew the attention of humane societies, but the launch still occurred.
title:
Cos-Mouse Press Party
creator:
Tennessee Technological University. Photo Services
subject:
Classrooms
subject:
Animal behavior--Experiments
subject:
Animals--Experiments
subject:
Rockets (Aeronautics)
subject:
Mice--Physiology
subject:
Mice as laboratory animals
subject:
Press releases
description:
Dr. Elmo Dooley, a Tech professor and several students conducted a “cosmouse” experiment on May 22, 1970. A mouse was installed in a rocket, which was shot 3,000 feet into the air to see what would happen to the mouse’s heart and respiratory rates. Both increased. Cosmouse passed from age one year after the launch. The event drew the attention of humane societies, but the launch still occurred.
date:
1970-05-22
type:
image
format:
jpeg
identifier:
PS_46_0165_0007
publisher:
Tennessee Technological University. Archives and Special Collections
source:
RG 112 Photo Services photographs, Box 46, Folder 165.
language:
eng
relation:
RG 112 Photo Services photographs, Box 46, Folder 165
temporal:
1970s
spatial:
Cookeville (Tenn.)
spatial:
Putnam County (Tenn.)
rights:
In Copyright
rights Holder:
Tennessee Technological University. Photo Services
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