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What is the oldest man-made object still in space?
OK, how about a space trivia question?
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The first Vanguard satellite to achieve orbit.
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A MANNED V2? I doubt it. There weren't any manned flights until the 50s...
unless your making a very bad joke about Captain America and Buckey in Avengers #4....
in which case, that would be in extremely bad taste...
No...you can Google it yourself. Like I said, I put it in the unlikely category. It's one of things that could certainly have been tried, and certainly been fatal.
I googled it. I got nothing except for the SpaceX V2 manned capsule.
If you found something else, I'd be curious to see it.
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Timothy Leary's brain.
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Google "german v-2 manned"
Like I said, just rumor it seems:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-238682.html
https://greyfalcon.us/restored/History of German Rocketry.htm
https://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/screaminjayhawkins575.shtml
https://www.answers.com/Q/Was_the_German_v2_missile_manned_by_people
After having seen some of the early attempts at flight, I could imagine somebody thinking it's doable. The initial story I heard said a POW had been forced in to the "cabin". I heard this probably 20 years ago.
However I hear tell someone is riding steam rocket across a canyon...
Like I said, just rumor it seems:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-238682.html
https://greyfalcon.us/restored/History of German Rocketry.htm
https://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/screaminjayhawkins575.shtml
https://www.answers.com/Q/Was_the_German_v2_missile_manned_by_people
After having seen some of the early attempts at flight, I could imagine somebody thinking it's doable. The initial story I heard said a POW had been forced in to the "cabin". I heard this probably 20 years ago.
However I hear tell someone is riding steam rocket across a canyon...
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V-2 couldn't achieve anything like orbital velocity, let alone escape velocity...
There that was easy...
Later! OL JR
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They used dogs... a bunch of dogs...
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Yes, many dogs, and other animals too:
On August 19, 1960 Russia launched Sputnik 5 (also known as Korabl-Sputnik 2) which carried the dogs Belka and Strelka, along with a gray rabbit, 40 mice, 2 rats, and 15 flasks of fruit flies and plants.
On March 9, 1961 the Soviet Union launched the Korabl-Sputnik 4 that carried a dog named Chernushka, some mice, frogs and, for the first time into space, a guinea pig.
All were successfully recovered.
During the Voskhod program, two Russian space dogs, Veterok (Ветерок, Little Wind) and Ugolyok (Уголёк, Blackie), were launched on February 22, 1966, on board Cosmos 110 and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on March 16. This spaceflight of record-breaking duration was not surpassed by humans until Skylab 2 in 1974 and still stands as the longest space flight by dogs.
NASA needs to send a dog or two to ISS, just because. Of course taking then out to pee could be a problem...
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