Space.com reports:
Laika, a stray dog scooped off the streets of Moscow, launched on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957, just a month after Sputnik 1’s liftoff opened the space age. The 11-lb. (5 kilograms) mixed-breed quickly died of overheating and circled Earth as a corpse until April 1958, when Sputnik 2 fell back into the atmosphere and burned…
Tag: space history
‘Curious and curiouser!’ Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grains
An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a surprising bit of space history, based on new research from Washington University in St. Louis. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-curious-curiouser-meteorite-chunk-unexpected.html…
Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon
Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator of the Apollo spacecraft collection, on awesome astronauts, her passion for space history – and getting struck by lightning Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432541-500-apollo-collection-curator-on-what-neil-armstrong-took-to-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…