June 17, 2006
Space, a nice place to visit
I visit the main page of Wikipedia most work days looking for what they have to say about events in history for that day. Yesterday, Friday, June 16th they had an entry on Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
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It got me thinking about other people and beings sent to space. The russians launched a dog. Pretty naturally the thought of monkeys in space came next. Sadly, according to Wikipedia, Albert, the first monkey in space on a V2 rocket in 1948, died from suffocation. Similar fates awaited a handful more.
It wasn’t a big stretch to think, maybe, just maybe it’s time to return to monkeys in space: |
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Later…
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