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What is the worlds largest rodent?

What mammal boasts an entire order to itself?

What were the first animals in space?
 
Capybara

The Order Hyracoidea contains only the Hyrax species.

Fruit flies (whether or not this was sub-orbital still satifies your question - sub-orbit is still space)
 
I know that the rodent order includes more then the obvious rats or mice, and I believe one of those is the answer. Otherwise I would say the New York City subterranean rat (bigapplus skitterunderingus) or the standard white lab rat or most likely, the R.O.U.S.s.

Mammal with an entire order, for some reason Aardvark or Armadillo popped into my head first, but then I realized it was probably one of the oldest orders (i.e. fewest extant species). So i will say Platypus maybe? Or spiny anteaters/ echidnas, or pangolins.

I think it was Laika (sp?) the dog. She was put on the second sputnik. The United States used Chimpanzees before they attempted the first human orbits.

edit: Okay okay enough silliness, I will actually go and look them up.

so far: Capybara is largest rodent

and, My first instinct about Aardvark is correct. There seem to be arguments that some of the levels near "order" are paraphyletic, but i don't see anything about the Aardvark classification like that.

Fruit flies were sent in space in German experiments first, but these were suborbital flights. Laika was the first animal on an orbital flight, so it depends on your definition i guess.
 
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