Dead Animals in Space

I wish to see the actual picture of dead animal in space.
 
Actually, in 1957, the Russian scientists put a living dog in Sputnik 2 (second spacecraft) and sent it out to space. The dog's name was Laika. The dog died within a few orbits. That was very strange.
 
Interesting... Maybe aliens took them and trash them in the space?
 
Yeah Laika died of panic and heat. She lasted only 4 hours but the Russians put on a big show to say that she lasted as long as 4 days.
 
i wish NASA would let pet owners apply to send their pets on a space mission. i doubt my dog really wants to hang out in space, but i'll be damned if he doesn't!
 
acutally pets dont need to be in space. Not until we have actually established ourselves out there - which likely won't happen this century.

Sending animals into space were strictly experiments and none of the people at
NASA nor in the CCCR had any expectations or intentions of bringing them back to Earth alive. They were sent up to see what the effects of weightlessness and the lack of an atmosphere was on mammals - which is what we are essentially - mammals. They wanted to perfect their rockets and space capsules before sending man out there. It would have been quite disastrous for the space programs to have the loss of human life on the inaugural journey to space. But because we were successful from the get-go the space programs are able to continue despite fatalities on other flights (Challenger, Apollo, Columbia).

But the current spaceships (Discovery, Endeavor) are going to be decommissioned in 2010 and we will not have a replacement ship until 2015 - for 5 years we are going to be dependent solely on Russia's half-assed space 'program' to get our guys up and down.

For years the general public has been wondering - when are we going to return to the moon? We haven't touched the moon for decades - but what they dont realize is this: it's WAY expensive! To be practical several countries not just the USA would have to help fund such a journey and USA couldnt claim the moon to itself - although the US flag is still up there. I think several countries could benefit from experiments conducted on the moon as well as recent data recorded from the surface of the moon.

For regular trips to the moon to be possible it would be a joint project from several countries and it would have to be scheduled years apart -like every 5-10 years.
 
Dixie said:
acutally pets dont need to be in space. Not until we have actually established ourselves out there - which likely won't happen this century.
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quiet, you.

For years the general public has been wondering - when are we going to return to the moon? We haven't touched the moon for decades - but what they dont realize is this: it's WAY expensive!
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i like how moon landing conspiracy theorists say that the fact that we haven't returned to the moon in almost 40 years is proof the landing was faked. what were they supposed to do? spend another $100 billion going back to the moon every 10 years just to make a point? interesting how the public wants another moon landing, yet after apollo 13, no one gave a shit about the space program anymore. it was like "yaaawn! we've already been to the moon! this is boring!!" do people really have such short memories?

we've already landed there 6 damn times. we've already crossed the bridge and patted ourselves on the back, and got plenty of rock samples. the moon hasn't changed since we left, and won't change until a gigantic asteroid or whatever slams into it and tears it to pieces. as far as i'm concerned there's no reason to go back with manned vehicles unless we do something totally new. i think it's high time we actually make a moon colony. let's hear it for an artificial atmosphere dome and subservient space wives that bring their husbands an ice cold glass of space beer after a long hard day of space work! woo!
 
Worms survived the breakup of the Columbia space shuttle. The lockers were opened weeks later and they were alive and already had several generations since reentering. :eek2:

Some dead moss used for an experiment to see how going to space affected its structure was also found.
 
I saw on the TV news a few years ago that some special NASA (?) real estate agents allowed them to buy some properties on the moon. Some people bought them. They are so nut. I hope that the Gov't shouldn't allowed them like that.
 
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