On 11 Dec 2006 at 10:46, William Leijenaar wrote:
Hi AMSATs,
I was reading some articles on AMSAT-F webpage about the Spoetniks. My French is not so good, so I click on the "English" button to get the English translation.
Then I read some "painfull" translation of Leika, the dog that was launched into space... Better be carefull with those online translations :o)
Read it here: http://perso.orange.fr/fr5fc/radio/angfoto2.html
73 de William
Here is a revised translation of your text.
This satellite launched on November 3, 1957 carried the Laïka bitch in space. The USSR could thus study the effects of an orbital flight on a living organism. The information were retransmitted to the Earth by radio. The pressurized cabin where the animal was, remained attached to the last stage of the launcher. Sputnik 2 was consumed in the atmosophère on April 14, 1958. Laïka had died well before the exhaustion of its oxygen reserves. No system of recovery was indeed envisaged. ________________________________________________________________________________
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