>Americans think they won the space race
>>79545510
>Think that's why we won
We won because we weren't the one that went bankrupt trying to fund our space program.
>>79545510
All of those are all small achievements.
Moon landing is worth more points then all of those combined.
>>79545510
How's the USSR these days?
>>79545575
fpbp, always
>caring about a dead state
Don't be a sore loser.
>>79545510
You can lose every battle except the last one and still win the war.
Based Laika ;_;
>>79545510
>bringing up another country because yours has done jack shit in terms of space travel
>>79545510
>first man on the moon
I think you meant only men on the moon
>>79545575
The Yiddish Bolshevik commies went bankrupt because Tyrone refuses to work and yet still receives the same paycheck as Dr. Smith who went to college studying and working hard for 8 years. Eventually Dr. Smith gives the fuck up after realizing the reward for hard work disappears under a leftist Jewish communist system.
Only the white American man has had the daring outrageous audacity to step his white feet upon the surface of the moon.
Dumping, if this doesn't make you tear up you have no heart.
>Laika (Лaйкa, "Barker"), became the first living Earth-born creature (other than microbes) in orbit, aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3rd, 1957. The American media dubbed her "Muttnik", making a play-on-words for the canine follow-on to the first orbital mission, Sputnik. She died between five and seven hours into the flight from stress and overheating.[10] Her true cause of death was not made public until October 2002; officials previously gave reports that she died when the oxygen supply ran out.[6] At a Moscow press conference in 1998 Oleg Gazenko, a senior Soviet scientist involved in the project, stated "The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog...".[11]
>>79545510
We did, do you even know what winning a race means? It means you cross the finish line first, it doesn't matter if during the race you weren't in first place all of the time, as long as you're the first to cross the finish line you win, and we did that by landing on the moon. Suck a dick Mohammed.
>Belka (Бeлкa, literally, "Squirrel" or, alternately, "Whitey") and Strelka (Cтpeлкa, "Little Arrow") spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth.[6]
>They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, 2 rats, flies and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.
>Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named Pushok who participated in many ground-based space experiments, but never made it into space.[12] One of the pups was named Pushinka (Пyшинкa, "Fluffy") and was presented to President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. A Cold War romance bloomed between Pushinka and a Kennedy dog named Charlie resulting in the birth of 4 pups that JFK referred to jokingly as pupniks.[13][14] Two of their pups, Butterfly and Streaker were given away to children in the Midwest. The other two puppies, White Tips and Blackie, stayed at the Kennedy home on Squaw Island but were eventually given away to family friends.[12] Pushinka's descendants are still living today. A photo of descendants of some of the Space Dogs is on display at the Zvezda Museum outside Moscow.[15]
>Pchyolka (Пчёлкa, "Little Bee") and Mushka (Myшкa, "Little Fly") spent a day in orbit on 1 December 1960 on board Korabl-Sputnik-3 (Sputnik 6) with "other animals", plants and insects.[6] Due to a reentry error when the retrorockets failed to shut off when planned, their spacecraft was intentionally destroyed by remote self-destruct to prevent foreign powers from inspecting the capsule on 2 December and all died.[citation needed] Mushka was one of the three dogs trained for Sputnik 2 and was used during ground tests. She did not fly on Sputnik 2 because she refused to eat properly.
RIP puppers :(
>>79546562
>first animal into space is an accomplishment!!!1!
>it dies in orbit
Hmmmm................
>Chernushka (Чepнyшкa, "Blackie") made one orbit on board Korabl-Sputnik-4 (Sputnik 9) on 9 March 1961 with a cosmonaut dummy (whom Soviet officials nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich), mice and a guinea pig. The dummy was ejected out of the capsule during re-entry and made a soft landing using a parachute. Chernushka was recovered unharmed inside the capsule.
>Zvyozdochka (Zvezdochka, Звёздoчкa, or "Starlet"[16]), who was named by Yuri Gagarin,[citation needed] made one orbit on board Korabl-Sputnik 5 on 25 March 1961 with a wooden cosmonaut dummy in the final practice flight before Gagarin's historic flight on 12 April.[16] Again, the dummy was ejected out of the capsule while Zvezdochka remained inside. Both were recovered successfully.
>Veterok (Beтepoк, "Light Breeze") and Ugolyok (Угoлёк, "Coal") were launched on 22 February 1966 on board Cosmos 110, and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on 16 March.[2] This spaceflight of record-breaking duration was not surpassed by humans until Soyuz 11 in June 1971 and still stands as the longest space flight by dogs.
One more time based Laika ;_;
>Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, and therefore Laika's survival was not expected. Some scientists believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of outer space, so engineers viewed flights by animals as a necessary precursor to human missions.[1] The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure micro-gravity, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.
>Laika died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.
>On April 11, 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow that prepared Laika's flight to space. It features a dog standing on top of a rocket. She also appears on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
>>79547117
>Due to the overshadowing issue of the Soviet vs. U.S. Space Race, the ethical issues raised by this experiment went largely unaddressed for some time. As newspaper clippings from 1957 show, the press was initially focused on reporting the political perspective, while the health and retrieval—or lack thereof—of Laika only became an issue later.[22]
>Sputnik 2 was not designed to be retrievable, and Laika had always been intended to die.[4] The mission sparked a debate across the globe on the mistreatment of animals and animal testing in general to advance science.[14] In the United Kingdom, the National Canine Defence League called on all dog owners to observe a minute's silence, while the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) received protests even before Radio Moscow had finished announcing the launch. Animal rights groups at the time called on members of the public to protest at Soviet embassies.[23] Others demonstrated outside the United Nations in New York;[14] nevertheless, laboratory researchers in the U.S. offered some support for the Soviets, at least before the news of Laika's death.[14][24]
>In the Soviet Union, there was less controversy. Neither the media, books in the following years, nor the public openly questioned the decision to send a dog into space. It was not until 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet regime, that Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die:
>Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.[21][22]
This makes me so sad. Why? Literally tearing up about a stupid animal ;_;
>>79545510
Does history mention how far ahead a person was during a race, or he who finished first?
The space race was peaceful pretext to a stealth ICBM and orbital arms race that the USA handily won.
The moon missions were the pinnacle of human achievement, born from a nationwide effort of our best minds, and the best minds of the war spoils earned with American blood and treasure. Engineering, chemistry, mathematics, materials science, aerospace defense/exploration all culiminating in a spectacular feat; meant to send a clear message to USA's rivals that Manifest Destiny didnt stop at our West Coast and that our enemies can expect the military might and precision necessary to thread the needle of lunar orbit and return, if our Hegemon status is threatened.
>>79547231
empathy is nothing to be ashamed of
thanks for the dump bulgaria
>>79547625
Np senpai, glad someone enjoyed it
>>79546907
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