>>12649015>>12649028She actually died in several hours, not days. But glorious Soviet media still published several "updates" on the dog's well-being for at least a week. Oh and they also decided not to tell the public that the dog was doomed from the start - the entire purpose of the test was to see what happens to a complex living creature left in space for prolonged periods of time. So the reason the test was a failure is because the dog died to early.
And when the media finally published the truth of the dog dying in space, along with the fact that this indeed was the plan all along, there was an outrage and people kept bombarding the newspapers with letters like "why couldn't we have sent some much more useless creature instead, for example our dear General Secretary (Khruschev at the time)"
