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The engineers knew! They begged them to stop the launch, but of course, no one makes the wheels not capitalism stop rolling! profit progress at all costs!
Yep, the soviet space program took fewer lives overall.
I haven’t forgiven them for sending up a dog and a monkey though
Laika at 60: What happens to all the dogs, monkeys and mice sent into space? | The Independent

Stray dog sent into space in 1957 was first living creature to orbit Earth

The Independent
I don’t forgive the nazis or the americans either
And the first ones sent by NASA BTW