Ever seen this dog?
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.
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Italian radio/space enthusiasts reported Russian voice transmission saying “the world won’t know ..”
There’s a photo of senior Soviet military officers looking at an open coffin. Reportedly the remains of Komarov. The story is that he took the first flight because it was well known that it would fail and if he didn’t do it Yuri would have to. The two were friends so he sacrificed his life for his friend. There are recordings around of him screaming from the heat on re-entry.
The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won’t work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, “cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.”
The edge of his shirt appears to be pulled upward, suggesting he is suspended from wires. Although it is more likely an object in the background.
“Italian radio/space enthusiasts reported Russian voice transmission saying ‘the world won’t know ..’”
Interesting. Do you know the date of the transmission?
Ever seen this dog?
you betcha, and starched - pj’s were cotton and well you know how cotton wrinkles - almost as bad as linen. Socially, wrinkled clothes, even pj’s, were a sign of being slovenly.
Can women manage money?
I read an article in an old Reader’s Digest decades ago. The Italians had bought surplus military radios from the U.S. Army (surplus WW2 radio equipment was very popular among do-it-yourself radio enthusiasts).
The magazine may have been a 1965? Many of my old magazines were ruined by water some years back. Maybe search find something?
Commies lie.
We know that.
The Wires holding him up.
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