2023-11-03 12:31:49
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MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This November 3 marks 66 years since the launch, in 1957, of the first living being into space, the famous dog Laika, that the Soviet space program confined in the nave Suptnik 2.
Laika was found as a street dog wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists chose to use stray dogs from Moscow since it was assumed that these animals had already learned to withstand extreme conditions of cold and hunger.
Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft to orbit the Earth, at 02:30 UTC on November 3, 1957. It was a conical capsule 4 meters high with a base 2 meters in diameter. It contained several compartments intended to house radio transmitters, a telemetry system, a programmable unit, a regeneration and cabin temperature control system and scientific instruments, informs Wikipedia.
In a sealed cabin separated from the rest, the dog Laika, whose original name was “Kudryavka”, traveled. and it weighed about 6 kilos. Sputnik 2’s pressurized cabin allowed you to lie down or stand up and was padded. An air regenerating system provided him with oxygen; The food and water was in the form of gelatin.
THERE WAS NO POSSIBILITY OF RETURN
Laika was restrained with a harness, a bag collected excrement, and electrodes monitored vital signs. An early telemetry report indicated that Laika was agitated in space but she was eating. There was no possibility of returning to Earth, so it was planned to sacrifice her after 10 days in orbit..
However, in October 2002 it was revealed by Russian sources that Laika had died within hours due to overheating and stress. The mission provided scientists with the first data on the behavior of a living organism in space.
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