Dog spacesuit

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    From the Moscow Space Museum, the original space suit that Laika (the first dog in space) wore on it's trip to orbit. Pleasingly odd.

    bobbydoll, imajinsha, GN777Sia, Andrés Arango Lalinde, and 2 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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    1. manoakua 56 months ago | reply

      Interesting image of a Russian canine pressure suit. See additional material on Laika at:
      www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=77566&a...

    2. GN777Sia 55 months ago | reply

      But the Sputnik 2 is burned up in atmopheric re entry and Laika's body is not recovered isn't it??

    3. airajhane_07 29 months ago | reply

      laika was so lucky because she was the 1st dog who goes in space....... i want to experience that...........

    4. greekgeek 9 months ago | reply

      airajhane: Laika was sent up into space to die in a confined space, and her last moments were agony. Probably overheated -- the temperature controls malfunctioned -- but even if that didn't kill her, she was doomed to asphyxiate when the oxygen ran out. And yes, this was the plan: send up an animal, monitor its life signs for a few hours, then leave it there to die.

      Humans can be pretty awful sometimes. At least the dog that THIS space suit was created for had a chance to come back to Earth (unlike Laika).

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