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Laika was chosen as the first animal astronaut just 12 days before launch. First, the choice was between rats, mice, monkeys and dogs. Then, experts still stopped at the man's best friend. According to legend, the Soviet leadership believed that dogs love more than other mammals, so dog-hero will glorify the Soviet Union, rather than a rat or a monkey.

We decided to take the dog from a shelter - experts believed that purebred dogs are too choosy and can not be long endure in orbit. In addition, the pooch must necessarily be light color to look good in the photo. Laika chosen by process of elimination, one of the contenders for the dog just regret (she wore puppies), the second decided to keep the pragmatic reasons, since it regularly used in studies of technological equipment. Laika was no one regret - "passenger bomber" was supposed to be it.





LAST VICTIM OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

The launch is "Sputnik-2" was more a spontaneous decision. After a triumphant flight of Sputnik on 4 October 1957, the Soviet authorities wanted to quickly build on the success and surprise the world with a new achievement. We are approaching the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution - a great occasion. Almost two weeks before the new "space room" by Nikita Khrushchev decided that the "surprise" Now the international community is "cosmic animal". By the way, "Sputnik-2" created on the knee: there was not even any preliminary sketches. The designers have designed new spacecraft directly in the shops, you might say, writing it on the go. About the dog, which was to perform the feat, of course, no one thought. Everyone understood that it is doomed - the satellite should not have to return to Earth. The question was only how to live Laika space orbit. LAST FLIGHT

Laika was very docile dog. Immediately after the launch of the satellite, telemetry indicated that the overload start pinned the dog to the tray container, wherein the dog behaved quietly. Since the project was prepared on the knee, no reliable life-support systems on the satellite have not created. Designers hoped that Laika died with the end of the reserve power on the spacecraft - six days. However, the dog died just a few hours - from overheating.

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"The most hirsute, the lonely, the most miserable dog in the world»

So wrote the "moribund" Laika American correspondent, The New York Times the day after the flight. Similar articles sympathetic to the dog appeared in the world. Many countries have been protests from animal rights: Nikita Khrushchev called the communist barbarian and butcher. Of course, it was possible to speak of "paid" imperialists, envy capitalism to socialism, but the policy was not being here. World, who met with the hope and joy of the first satellite, and now, for the first time in history, almost live in the expectation of death was a living being. This technological progress did not want one.



"She fell asleep»

And while the West remembered the first warm-cosmonaut in the Soviet press a few days after the actual death of the dog told about her health. On the eighth day they reported that communication with the satellite is lost, and still later - a "planned drowsing" animal. And here is the Soviet people began to wake up. The fact that no one warned the public that the dog is doomed and will never return to Earth. Media USSR modestly fails to mention the details of the "return" from the beginning, so citizens are sincerely waiting for heroic pooch, ways reprises its "landing."

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"Khrushchev SPACE!»

Another feat of the Soviet space program because public opinion has turned blurry. And it is not only spoiled animal advocates in the West. In the USSR, many of patriotism, too, gave a failure - "everyone felt sorry for the dog." The news of the death of a cute pooch pain in the hearts of many Soviet citizens. Of course, most upset children. On special order in many schools conducted "outreach": teachers told sentimental students about the importance of the USSR space flight that wordless creature, like a dog, not the most serious victim in the development of the universe, and in general - anyone unknown pooch now famous the whole world. However, the wave of discontent did not abate for a long time. The people walking joke that follows due to fly into space Khrushchev. Interestingly, in the Kremlin came hundreds of letters with the proposal to award Laika posthumously the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union and promoted to the rank. They say that the authorities have even discussed these popular initiatives.



"I DO NOT LIKE? THEN smoke! »

Work with public opinion on the "internal market" in the Soviet Union did not yet know how to - used to give people a sense of using other "therapy". But the court was a "thaw", so it was necessary to seek a more spiritual way. The country decided to "relax" with the new varieties of cigarettes, "Laika" (later - cigarettes), which, apparently, on the idea of ​​the then "PR", were all civil sympathy for the unfortunate dog to turn into smoke. According to the tales of the time, Khrushchev had originally planned to do "like" a sort of umbrella brand: the nickname of the animal astronaut planned to launch candy, ice cream and even processed cheese. But someone with a sober mind in team Khrushchev warned that could be too much, so we decided to stay only for a cigarette. However, several entered sinister and cynical logic circuit - "The dog was burned, and cigarettes are lit».

Oleg via Suvorin

That's all, you can kick.



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