Hi Dave
'tis true. Frustratingly I knew all of that already, even the height of the
Karman line!
What I didn't factor in, was my poor listening skills. I heard the standard
pub quiz question "first animal to orbit the earth" not the* actual*
question which was "first mammal in space".
Genuinely my initial response to hearing the correct question was "well
that was fruit flies", which would still have been wrong!
Just a bit of fun - I was totally wrong but I got plenty of others wrong
too and was nowhere near the top of the leader board anyway.
There is no disagreement - just a bit of joking around!
It's things like this that explain why my Quantum repairs seem to take 10
times longer than everyone elses!...
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 11:28:38 AM UTC+1, Dave English wrote:
>
> Hi All.
> With a break in my hectic schedule I thought I'd tag-in on this.
>
> The USA launched and recovered some fruit flies on 20 February 1947 in a
> modified V2 rocket. They got to 109km. (100km is officially space)
>
> The first mammal was Albert II, a rhesus monkey, launched in another
> modified V2, on 14 June 1949 from the USA. Achieved an altitude of 134km.
> Unfortunately a parachute failure doomed poor Albert on the return.
>
> The first mammals to survive a trip to space were two Russian dogs, Tsygan
> and Dezik, launched in an R-1 (also a modified V2) on 22 July 1951.
>
> Finally, although more animals were launched in-between and after these,
> Laika is the Russian dog most people know (originally called Kudryavka).
> Launched in Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957, she became the first animal to
> orbit the Earth aboard only the second spacecraft capable of doing so.
> Alas, Laika was never intended to survive and died after six days. Sputnik
> 2's orbit decayed and it was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere on
> 14 April 1958.
>
> My thanks to Wikipedia, who's information is always 100% reliable! Niall
> and Jorge may still be right.
>
> Dave English
> Q2009
>
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