Monday, November 03, 2008

This Day in History: 1957

The Soviet Union increases its lead in the so-called "Space Race" by launching Sputnik II, the first spacecraft to carry a live animal into orbit. That animal - a dog named Laika - would serve to answer one of space travel's most pressing questions at the time:
"How would zero gravity affect a cosmonaut's ability to lick their own anus?"

1 comment:

Merton Sussex said...

I'm thinking it would help.