This Dog's Mum Was An ASTRONAUT?!?😱
Channel: Yap for Years
Date: 2023-02-21

Dogs have many talents - but did you know space travel was one of them?! 🚀

In 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev gifted John F Kennedy with a dog, called Pushinka. Pushinka was a descendent of Soviet space dog extraordinaire, Strelka. 

Strelka had travelled to space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 along along with fellow astronaut, Belka. This mission was ground breaking as these two dogs became the first higher living organisms to survive orbit in outer space. They were accompanied by a range of animals … including a grey rabbit. These became the first ever earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive…!

After Jackie Kennedy had asked Krushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna, the Kennedy's were given Pushinka, one of Strelka's puppies! And thus, the daughter of a dog astronaut made it all the way to the White House!

The Americans however, were suspicious of this little soviet dog. They were concerned she could have been planted in the White House as a SPY 😱

She was examined by the CIA and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center who conducted sonagrams to see if Pushinka had been fitted with a listening device implant, she was x-rayed and even screened with a magnetometer. There was nothing. But then again, the best spies never get caught!

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