Posted on 11/03/2021 7:34:38 AM PDT by DFG
Whilst Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are rightly hailed as being the first men to step on the moon, it was a stray mongrel named Laika who propelled the space race into new territory.
On November 3, 1957, the little part-husky dog – who was also known as Curly – became the first animal to orbit Earth when she flew out of the atmosphere in the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 spacecraft.
At the time, the Russians told the world that, until her air supply ran out, the dog had survived for six days inside a capsule which provided her with food, water and oxygen.
Animal rights groups around the world, including in the UK, had fiercely protested the sending of a dog into space and it soon emerged that Laika had in fact passed away from either overheating or asphyxiation within a matter of hours – before she had been due to be poisoned after fulfilling her purpose.
Yet, despite the tragic end to her life, Laika had taken Communist Russia's fierce competition with the United States up another level.
Less than three years after her flight, two other Russian dogs – Belka and Strelka – became the first animals to go into orbit and return alive.
The following year, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to journey into outer space.
And then, most famously, the U.S. achieved the most coveted feat of all with their Apollo 11 mission: they put men on the moon and returned them to Earth, where they were rightly hailed as heroes.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Did anyone ever really iron pajamas?
I did. Back in the day.
Far more humane and research worthy than Fauci’s beagles.
What does Daily Mail think about Beagles being eaten alive by fleas?
So this is Laika’s untold story.
Now, do we have any new information about a test flight the Soviets launched in 1960, which was supposedly a satellite carrying a dummy cosmonaut? I have heard rumors that it was actually a real cosmonaut, but they couldn’t bring him back alive, so they lied about the mission, effectively erasing the first man in space from history.
Somehow, the dog in the photo above actually looks like it’s russian.
This article is four years old, so it’s not exactly “new.” But the “lost cosmonaut” claim has apparently been debunked.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/lost-cosmonaut-conspiracy
Soviets launched dummy named “IVAN IVANOVITCH” aka John Doe on test flights known as Korabl Sputnik through 1960 and early 1961
Dummy has a placard in helmet visor “MAKET” or dummy in case found would not think was dead cosmonaut or space alien
Dummy would transmit recorded sounds of breathing and heart beat to test air - ground telemetry
US did same thing launching dummy to test Mercury spacecraft before John Glenn orbital flight
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thank you!
Probably. My aunt used to iron my uncle's underwear.
Holy smokes you’re right! the more I look at it!
The Soviets LiES.....
In other shocking news, sky is blue, grass is green.
Ray Anderson also gave us Stalin Kicked the Bucket (1953)
Laika had in fact passed away from either overheating or asphyxiation within a matter of hours – before she had been due to be poisoned after fulfilling her purpose.
Sure, but the US abandoned THREE lunar Rovers. /rimshot
Pardon the sudden modern history outburst, btw.
What am I supposed to see in the circle?
Explain please
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