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KF5JRV > TODAY 03.11.18 13:26l 24 Lines 1013 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Today in History - Nov 3
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The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space—a dog name
Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft.
Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets
before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for
several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth
satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated life-support system. Electrodes
attached to her body provided scientists on the ground with important
information about the biological effects of space travel. She died after
the batteries of her life-support system ran down.
At least a dozen more Russian dogs were launched into space in
preparation for the first manned Soviet space mission, and at least five
of these dogs died in flight. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, aboard the
spacecraft Vostok 1. He orbited Earth once before landing safely in the
USSR.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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