Dolan
Banned
Of course, I am talking about The Dog Laika, the only dog who has lived as Presidential Pet of the White House and Premier Pet of the Kremlin within her lifetime, the first living being who successfully completed orbits around earth and land back safely. So much that when she died in 1970, she was buried with full military honors of the Soviet Union which also attended by representatives of the US Government.
The official lines from both the Soviet Union and the US is that her mission was always intended as a 7 day survival mission with orbital calculation error caused the orbit to decay during the 6th day and forced Sputnik 2 to land at the Waters of Florida, when US Coast Guard ship spotted the floating capsule and managed to safely extract the first Dog in orbit.
With how Sputnik 2 land in American hands in late 1957, there are tensions about retrievability of said assets of the Soviet Union, and Laika ends up being the center of the dispute. Initially being quarantined in a NASA Facility, after tests result coming out announcing she is a perfectly healthy dog, the Americans joked about how Laika is actually defecting to the US, and this ends up resulting in Soviet Media campaign to retrieve Laika back home in Russia.
Things then escalated in a comical way, after being re-homed in the Florida Governor's Residence, the Soviets told the Americans that Laika would live in Kremlin, and as the response, from the start of 1959, Eisenhower end up adopting Laika as Presidential pet for her to live at the White House, and she ends up staying there until 1962, in which she was sent back to Moscow as part of the deal that peacefully ends the Cuban Missile Crisis, where she ends up spending the rest of her time as the official pet of Kremlin until her death in 1970.
The very fact that a mongrel dog was being the point of contention between US and USSR did amuse later generations to no end, especially when it often joked that Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened because the Soviet Union wanted their dog back.
Now, imagine another timeline where Laika end up either successfully land in the Soviet Union or worse, died in orbit, or even worse, the mission setup was a suicide mission from the start and she was not expected to come back alive. What will happen to the Space Race the hen first successful retrieval of animals from space happened later?
The official lines from both the Soviet Union and the US is that her mission was always intended as a 7 day survival mission with orbital calculation error caused the orbit to decay during the 6th day and forced Sputnik 2 to land at the Waters of Florida, when US Coast Guard ship spotted the floating capsule and managed to safely extract the first Dog in orbit.
With how Sputnik 2 land in American hands in late 1957, there are tensions about retrievability of said assets of the Soviet Union, and Laika ends up being the center of the dispute. Initially being quarantined in a NASA Facility, after tests result coming out announcing she is a perfectly healthy dog, the Americans joked about how Laika is actually defecting to the US, and this ends up resulting in Soviet Media campaign to retrieve Laika back home in Russia.
Things then escalated in a comical way, after being re-homed in the Florida Governor's Residence, the Soviets told the Americans that Laika would live in Kremlin, and as the response, from the start of 1959, Eisenhower end up adopting Laika as Presidential pet for her to live at the White House, and she ends up staying there until 1962, in which she was sent back to Moscow as part of the deal that peacefully ends the Cuban Missile Crisis, where she ends up spending the rest of her time as the official pet of Kremlin until her death in 1970.
The very fact that a mongrel dog was being the point of contention between US and USSR did amuse later generations to no end, especially when it often joked that Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened because the Soviet Union wanted their dog back.
Now, imagine another timeline where Laika end up either successfully land in the Soviet Union or worse, died in orbit, or even worse, the mission setup was a suicide mission from the start and she was not expected to come back alive. What will happen to the Space Race the hen first successful retrieval of animals from space happened later?