The First Living Being in Space






whenever we think about the first living being in space, the name that comes to our mind is Laika, but there were some more species of animals, like rats and flies, which had done space missions and there was even a monkey, whose name was 




Albert 1, who took part in a suborbital flight, in 1948, which was not a proper mission. Just because of that we know about, Laika who did the first space mission, we are proud od Laika, because she was the only animal in this whole earth who did the space mission, but really..... was Laika a lucky dog? as we have seen in magazines and school books? So, what is the truth? today we will know about that 
Before 1940, it was a difficult task for scientists to send humans in space. there was a question in their mind that can humans survive in space? that is why several animals were sent into space. 1957, Moscow, Russia, this time Laika was a stray dog who was roaming in the streets of Moscow, and at that time her age was 3 years, she didn't know that in human history, she will be the first dog to complete a proper space mission. and between this, the first-ever satellite of the world, Sputnik 1 was launched successfully, but in Sputnik 1, there was no living being, and then the scientists of Russia thought that we should a big living being into space, this time these scientists wanted to complete the second achievement in Space, that is why they had only 4 weeks to make a spacecraft for Laika, a later on that innocent dog, had to pay for this, the name of this spacecraft was Sputnik 2, which was specially designed for a dog, in the spacecraft, there was a carbon dioxide absorber, an oxygen generator and a fan to keep Laika cool, and even there was a one week supply for the dog and a stool and urine collector, the cabin of Sputnik 2 was so compact that there was no space left for the dog to roam around, so Sputnik 2 was designed in 28 days, and now they only wanted a  dog. The soviet space scientists thought mandatory to take a stray dog because they had a habit of living in extreme conditions than that of a Domestic dog, which was ideal for this space mission, and then these space scientists found Laika, and they trained Laika for a space mission, the cabin of Sputnik 2 was very compact, so for that, she was kept in a small cage, so that she can easily sit in the cabin, and the time passed by, na the training of Laika was over and now she was ready to go to space, that time humans only had the knowledge of how to reach space but they did not know the way to come back from space, If we see, this mission was just like a suicide mission, but the only difference was that, that Laika didn't know that she is about to die in a few days, so before the mission one of the scientists took her to his house, and Laika to play with his child in the ending days of the dog. Now it was the time to say goodbye to Laika, so Laika was put inside the cabin of Sputnik 2, and she was also tied with a chain so that she cannot do any type of movement from her place, and then in this position, she was kept of 3 days on Earth, so that, she would have a habit of sitting in such position, 3rd November 1957, the last day of Laika, before closing the lid of the cabin, a technician there, kissed Laika on her nose and said her goodbye, knowing that she will never come back, and then Sputnik 2 was launched successfully and started to reach space with Laika, but from some technical problem, a part of the rocket was unable to detach from the rocket, I think that, that 4 weeks were not enough to make  a spacecraft, and because f=of that, the temperature of Laika's cabin began to increase, and because of that, her heart rate became to reach 
240 from 103, from this information, we come to know that, Laika had to face many problems from the heat. and for 3 hours, she kept fighting against death, and after 5 hours, the temperature of the cabin was too hight, that signals stopped coming from Laika's Cabin, and then Laika died, and after that, Sputnik 2 was as it is in the earth's orbit for 162 days and kept revolving the Earth for 2570 times, and after that, 14 th April 1958, Sputnik 2 entered in the atmosphere of the Earth and then it burned in the atmosphere with the dead body of Laika, and in 2008, the Russian government made a statue of Laika in her respect, the statue was made on the place, where Laika was trained, as you can see, a dog is standing above a rocket, who is Laika, we should never forget balidan of Laika, and there must be some contribution of Laika, that is why we can think about big space mission today. Do you think that we should                                                                                  












































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