The Unusual Star of This Story Was a Straw Dog, a Very Common Old Female Mongrel
Someone should make a movie of this story as it is about heroes and villains or at least that is my opinion.
Like the story of the glass being half full or half empty.
You will get your opportunity to decide for yourself whether or not it is about heroes and villains.
The story starts in Russia and the case or plot of the story is a straw dog in the streets and the Scientist from the Soviet Union.
The star of the story is the straw dog, a common old female mongrel, who was about three years old and weighted about eleven pounds.
She was given several names throughout this plot of which the favourite of most people was Laika, the name is said to mean Barker.
Her breed was not known, but generally it was thought that she was half Terrier and half Husky.
Her general temperament was described as phlegmatic at best.
Laika had a great adventure ahead of her as she was destined to be the World's most famous dog at that time.
As the story unfolds, the Russians first space flight was a success, which was Sputnik.
So the Soviet leader Nikita wanted something spectacular for the 40th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
It was decided to launch another space flight on the day of the Anniversary on the 7th November 1957.
Although construction had already begun on another spacecraft, it completion date was put at December, which would eventually become Sputnik 3.
However, to please the Soviet Leader, the Soviet Scientist had to build another space craft, but since Nikita wanted something more spectacular, it wasn't just another spacecraft, this one would be carrying live cargo and that live cargo would be a dog.
The idea was that since they were testing dogs already, by sending them into sub orbital space, that they would use a dog to go into outer space, which would make Russia the first to do so.
However, the big issue was that, according to reports the decision to do so was made around October 10 - 12th, which meant that the Scientist only had four weeks to do so.
Do you think that four weeks to pull this off was pushing it a bit, also do you really think that they could address all the safety issues and other issues that something like this would create? Try to understand that these Scientist were not working from prototypes or research data or even blueprints for that matter, no they were working from sketches.
Nevertheless construction went on and three dogs Albina, Mushka and Laika were chosen to start training.
Probably one of the primary reasons that they choose dogs was because no one thought that humans could survive the launch, let only the journey and the conditions of space.
The craft was outfitted with life support systems, instruments to measure solar radiation, also cosmic rays and a heat activated fan to cool the dog.
The food was made in a gelatin form and was enough for seven days.
Also a dog harness was built to collect the dog's waste matter.
They also created a harness to keep the dog in one place where it could only sit, stand or lay down, as there was no room to move about is the cockpit.
Like the story of the glass being half full or half empty.
You will get your opportunity to decide for yourself whether or not it is about heroes and villains.
The story starts in Russia and the case or plot of the story is a straw dog in the streets and the Scientist from the Soviet Union.
The star of the story is the straw dog, a common old female mongrel, who was about three years old and weighted about eleven pounds.
She was given several names throughout this plot of which the favourite of most people was Laika, the name is said to mean Barker.
Her breed was not known, but generally it was thought that she was half Terrier and half Husky.
Her general temperament was described as phlegmatic at best.
Laika had a great adventure ahead of her as she was destined to be the World's most famous dog at that time.
As the story unfolds, the Russians first space flight was a success, which was Sputnik.
So the Soviet leader Nikita wanted something spectacular for the 40th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
It was decided to launch another space flight on the day of the Anniversary on the 7th November 1957.
Although construction had already begun on another spacecraft, it completion date was put at December, which would eventually become Sputnik 3.
However, to please the Soviet Leader, the Soviet Scientist had to build another space craft, but since Nikita wanted something more spectacular, it wasn't just another spacecraft, this one would be carrying live cargo and that live cargo would be a dog.
The idea was that since they were testing dogs already, by sending them into sub orbital space, that they would use a dog to go into outer space, which would make Russia the first to do so.
However, the big issue was that, according to reports the decision to do so was made around October 10 - 12th, which meant that the Scientist only had four weeks to do so.
Do you think that four weeks to pull this off was pushing it a bit, also do you really think that they could address all the safety issues and other issues that something like this would create? Try to understand that these Scientist were not working from prototypes or research data or even blueprints for that matter, no they were working from sketches.
Nevertheless construction went on and three dogs Albina, Mushka and Laika were chosen to start training.
Probably one of the primary reasons that they choose dogs was because no one thought that humans could survive the launch, let only the journey and the conditions of space.
The craft was outfitted with life support systems, instruments to measure solar radiation, also cosmic rays and a heat activated fan to cool the dog.
The food was made in a gelatin form and was enough for seven days.
Also a dog harness was built to collect the dog's waste matter.
They also created a harness to keep the dog in one place where it could only sit, stand or lay down, as there was no room to move about is the cockpit.
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