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From the wikipedia page. Félicette was euthanized two months after the launch so that scientists could perform a necropsy to examine her brain.[29] Doesn't pa
by nn3 5y ago
From the wikipedia page.
Félicette was euthanized two months after the launch so that scientists could perform a necropsy to examine her brain.[29]
Doesn't pay to be a hero.
- nsonha 5y agoWhat scientific hypothesis could they possibly be trying to confirm? I read the story of how Einstein's brain was preserved and couldn't help but thinking this is pseudo science.
- rsynnott 5y agoPresumably checking for damage. This was 1963, so about all that could be said of the safety of spaceflight, given that the USSR and US weren't really sharing data, was that Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn didn't immediately keel over dead.