[Jan_Sobieski]

What monkey, what spacecraft, what launch vehicle. Name and date of the mission.

The answer is we never sent a monkey. Why?

[NorthMountain]

BECAUSE WE DIDN’T NEED TO!

We had the Van Allen radiation belts well mapped out already and knew how to go around the worst of them, through the fringes quickly, and not be harmed.

I know it’s rocket science, but if you’re what you seem to sort of hint at claiming to be you already understand that.