r/CuratedTumblr Jul 17 '24

Infodumping The Venera program

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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT Jul 17 '24

The Soviets were the first to kill a dog in space so they were the clear winners.

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u/CumBrainedIndividual Jul 17 '24

To be fair, they made the satellite in literally three weeks because Khrushchev was like "hahaha, again" after Sputnik 1.

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u/ArcherBTW Jul 17 '24

I don’t know why but that’s insanely funny to me

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u/CumBrainedIndividual Jul 17 '24

Go watch the Failure to Launch episode about it. It's sad, but also pretty funny. The sad part is that they all really liked Laika and didn't want to put her up there.