Cycleracer Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Sputnik 2 the satelite was launched in Russia in 1957 which contained a dog called Laika. The satelite was not designed to return to Earth and Laika was sent into space to die for scientific experiments, however what I don't know if Sputnik 2 ever did fall back to Earth or is still orbiting the planet today or went out to space never to return... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man like me Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Have you rung Battersea dogs home to see if they have the dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waypher Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 That's 392 in dog years.....she's a gonner mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 The orbit of Sputnik 2 decayed and it reentered Earth's atmosphere on 14 April 1958 after 162 days in orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Plenty of information available via Google. Laika survived for only a few hours instead of the planned ten days because of heat and stress. The orbit of Sputnik 2 decayed and it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 14 April 1958 after 162 days in orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choogling Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Sputnik 2 the satelite was launched in Russia in 1957 which contained a dog called Laika. The satelite was not designed to return to Earth and Laika was sent into space to die for scientific experiments, however what I don't know if Sputnik 2 ever did fall back to Earth or is still orbiting the planet today or went out to space never to return... On November 3, 1957, the USSR stunned the world with a new space sensation -- the launch of Sputnik-2 carrying a dog onboard. The Space Age had barely started less than a month before, with the launch of the first Soviet satellite on October 4, 1957. Sputnik-1, a 40-pound sphere, looked very heavy compared to the U.S. spacecraft under development at the time. Now four weeks later, the Soviet press boasted about the 508.3-kilogram (1,120.8-pound) spacecraft carrying the first-ever live passenger -- a dog named Laika. However it soon became clear that the animal would not return. The Cold War politics left no time for designers to develop a reliable life-support system, not to mention the heat shield to protect a spacecraft from a fiery reentry. Years after Sputnik-2 burned up in the atmosphere, conflicting scenarios of Laika's death were circulating in the West, along with few other misconceptions about this historic mission. google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 years ago a black friend of mine said hey, there's been the first black man in space. I said yeah sure. Maybe officially. There's probably a few been up there for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cycleracer Posted May 9, 2013 Author Share Posted May 9, 2013 Plenty of information available via Google.But then that rules out this discussion doesn't it,, nice to hear it from people that actually know though they probably got it from google:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choogling Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 But then that rules out this discussion doesn't it,, nice to hear it from people that actually know though they probably got it from google:hihi: What is there to discuss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 I always found it remarkably cruel to send a dog into space. They can't stay in a car for more than a few hours. Where's the experiment? Most people can tell you what'll happen to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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