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Space suit for a dog

On display in the National Space Centre, Leicester.

 

Technically it's not a space suit but a canine high altitude partial pressure suit. It was used in testing conducted for the Soviet space programme in 1959. Specifically the test involved sending a dog in the nose cone of a rocket up to an altitude of 70km, at which point the dog would be ejected and return to Earth by parachute.

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Uploaded on July 2, 2016
Taken on July 2, 2016