Birds in Space
For those who were not already aware, there have been avian embryo astronauts, as a result of a NASA project funded by Kentucky Fried Chicken and even feathered cosmonauts.
This is Inkubator-1 aboard Kosmos 1129/Bion 5 launched
in 1979 in a collaboration of Slovak and Soviet scientists.
Mission patch for "Chix in Space" on
which Col. Sanders is acknowledged.
The first attempt at this project ended
in the Challenger Disaster, tragically.
I had no idea that during the fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia, there was a guy in outer space handfeeding helpless quail chicks:
This is Inkubator-1 aboard Kosmos 1129/Bion 5 launched
in 1979 in a collaboration of Slovak and Soviet scientists.
Mission patch for "Chix in Space" on
which Col. Sanders is acknowledged.
The first attempt at this project ended
in the Challenger Disaster, tragically.
I had no idea that during the fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia, there was a guy in outer space handfeeding helpless quail chicks:
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