Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
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Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
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#2Re: Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
#3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vkj-t1ytzo
Jonathan Coulton has a great take too.
Re: Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
#4She has thousands of dogs named in her honor now - that makes me smile.
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#5Laika is memorialized in the form of a statue and plaque at Star City, the Russian Cosmonaut training facility.
https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/08/b...
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, constructed in 1964, also includes Laika!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Conquerors_of_...
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#6Don't forget Félicette, the first, and so far the ONLY, cat launched into space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette
She also survived.
Re: Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
#7She has thousands of dogs named in her honor now - that makes me smile.
And an excellent Finnish surf band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_%26_the_Cosmonauts
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#8Don't forget Félicette, the first, and so far the ONLY, cat launched into space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette She also survived.
Killed 2 months later to examine the brain.
Re: Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
#9Don't forget Félicette, the first, and so far the ONLY, cat launched into space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette She also survived.
>Félicette was killed two months after the launch so that scientists could perform a necropsy to examine her brain.[29]
it was so wholesome up until that point