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The retrorockets kept firing and burned their only window to land in time
A capsule lies iced in a Siberian field with dogs inside, a ticking self-destruct, and hours slipping away - did they make it in time?
The retrorockets kept firing and burned their only window to land in time
In this episode, we follow the Soviet space dog program through a chain of missions that trained stray dogs for orbit, detailing the technical choices, failures, and moral trade-offs that shaped each flight. The narrative centers on December 1960 in Siberia and asks how pressure, design decisions, and timing converged in a single crisis.
Person: Laika, Dezik, Tsygan, Lisa, Belka…
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