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Space dog Laika: 60th anniversary
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November 5th, 2017 | #3 |
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The USSR had successfully recovered dogs and other small animals from space prior to Laika's flight, but only on short suborbital shots where the rocket was going much slower than orbital velocity of 18,000 mph, and their space capsules didn't require such thick heat shielding on reentry. Same for American rocket tests in the 1950s before Sputnik. The first animals successfully returned to Earth from orbit were two dogs, Belka and Strelka, in a prototype of the Vostok spacecraft Yuri Gagarin would fly a few months later. And the US did it with chimpanzees before their first astronauts went up. But sadly, other animals did die in other test flights. Better them than humans, of course.
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