10-08-2004, 01:00 AM
In 1969, Russia launched a SOYUZ class IV rocket carrying three men, a woman, and a dog. They were to engage in a circumstellar suborbital survey of the stratosphere. 13 days into the orbit, their coordinates were blown off course by a sudden solar radiation storm. They reached the neutral gravity point between the earth and the moon, and were subsequently brought under lunar gravitational influence. They landed on the moon on November 15, 1965 (www.nasa.gov/archive/russia/history/lunarlanding.html). The woman successfully made it back with the dog.
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I have too much free time - Chinese Proverb
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I have too much free time - Chinese Proverb