Posted on 09/30/2016 3:26:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
For the sake of preparing the dogs that were used for the sake of test flights, the Soviets confined the subjects in small boxes of decreasing size for periods of between 15 and 20 days at a time. This was designed to simulate spending time inside the small safety modules that would housed them for the duration of their flights.
Other exercises designed to get the dogs prepared for space flight included having them stand still for long periods of time. They also sought to get the dogs accustomed to wearing space suits, and made them ride in centrifuges that simulated the high acceleration experienced during launch.
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By the late 1950s, and as part of the Sputnik and Vostok programs, Russian dogs began to be sent into orbit around Earth aboard R-7 rockets. On November 3rd, 1957, the famous space dog Laika became the first animal to go into orbit as part of the Sputnik-2 mission. The mission ended tragically, with Laika dying in flight. But unlike other missions where dogs were sent into suborbit, her death was anticipated in advance.
It was believed Laika would survive for a full ten days, when in fact, she died between five and seven hours into the flight. At the time, the Soviet Union claimed she died painlessly while in orbit due to her oxygen supply running out. More recent evidence however, suggests that she died as a result of overheating and panic.
This was due to a series of technical problems which resulted from a botched deployment. The first was the damage that was done to the thermal system during separation, the second was some of the satellite’s thermal insulation being torn loose. As a result of these two mishaps, temperatures in the cabin reached over 40º C.
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I don’t even want to think about it
Mark Kelley is a dog, does that count?
Sorry, I take that back.
5.56mm
Good dog!
How many monkeys or chimps?
How many dogs has President Obama eaten?
Their exhibits range from the interesting to the eclectic to the satiric.
A few months ago they had an exhibition of painted portraits of all of the dogs that flew with the Russian space program.
How many dogs have come back alive from space?
Same here.
This goes for any sentient animal.
Oh great.
Another one of those Zen Koans.
I had a Zen Master ask me one of those Koan things.
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
I thought for a moment and replied “Whiff! Whiff! Whiff!”.
He hit me with a stick.
“That was to help you focus”, he said.
I kicked him in the ass.
“That was to help you fly”, I said.
He told me I’d attained enlightenment and gave me a bus ticket to Muncie.
What do we get if we guess the right number?
I remember that one. I was in high school. We called it "MutNik" back then.
Were the dog paintings on black velvet?
Had to stop using dogs in all space flights as they would stick their heads out the window and burn their faces off during reentry.
Was rumored that they wanted to have the first humans in space to be all bass guitar players but soon discovered that nobody cared about what would happen to them.
Well, OK, not exactly black velvet, but pretty cool, nevertheless!!
Thanks for the link!!
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