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🗓️ 26 January 2017
⏱️ 101 minutes
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0:30.0 | On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik II rocketed into orbit. |
0:49.6 | Just 32 days earlier, the launch of Sputnik I and blindsided American intelligence |
0:53.2 | and fired the starting pistol in the space race. |
0:55.6 | But Sputnik II distinguished itself from its unman-printed cesser with inclusion of a passenger. |
0:59.9 | A straight dog trained to be the first living being in space. |
1:03.4 | From the beginning, Soviet scientists had cruelly booked the terrier a one-way ticket, |
1:07.7 | but plans to euthanize like up by dispensing poison food before our oxygen ran out one |
1:11.7 | away when the cooling system malfunctioned, and the terrified dog cooked to death in our orbiting tomb. |
1:16.3 | Still, the mission was a scientific triumph, and while Sputnik is in the history books at the time, |
1:22.8 | its dogman, follow up Mutnik, was an even bigger factor in motivating the Panic U.S. government to act, |
1:28.1 | demonstrating the advanced state of the U.S.S. space program versus America's non-existent one. |
1:33.0 | As the Americans formed Mnaka, later becoming NASA, locations were chosen for its facilities. |
1:37.6 | Cape Canaveral, Florida for its launch pad, Houston, Texas at the insistence of LBJ for mission control, |
1:43.2 | and less famously, the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California for the construction of modules and rockets. |
1:48.3 | Downey had become one of the nation's most productive aircraft manufacturers during World War II, |
1:52.2 | and would go on to assemble the craft for the Apollo program and the space shuttle. |
1:56.2 | And downey also proved culturally influential in its connection to two fast food juggernauts, |
2:00.1 | is the home of the oldest operating McDonald's, the first with a famous Golden Arches, |
2:04.1 | as well as the birthplace of the world's largest Mexican chain, |
2:06.6 | whose founder claims to have invented the hard shell taco. |
2:10.0 | 30 years after its first location opened, the south of the border franchise made another dog famous. |
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