There is a whole hidden truth behind what were the living beings that managed to surround the star before humans.
Throughout the last time, we were told that The first step on the moon was given by American astronauts. However, new documents revealed by NASA changed that version and revealed an expedition never before disseminated from the space race.
Before a manned mission was encouraged to make the great leap, there were Another trip that had already shown that it was possible to survive out there. Actually, the most surprising thing is that the protagonists of that adventure were not human.
Man on the moon
Who were the first to get to the Moon, according to NASA
According to all the new information that was revealed, the true pioneers to complete a route around the Moon were two steppe turtles thrown in the zond 5 capsulea Soviet mission that took place in September 1968.
The trip began on the 14th of that same month, when the ship took off with a biological cargo that also included larvae, flies and seeds. The scientists, in order to obtain pure data, decided not to feed them from the moment they entered the cabin, on September 2. For four days the capsule made a circumlunar orbit and on September 21 he landed in the Indian Ocean.
Although they lost weight, the turtles returned alive and with a good state of health. That test was fundamentalsince it confirmed that prolonged exposure to space, with its radiation and absence of gravity, could be tolerated by complex organisms.
Just just a few Months later, in December 1968, the United States launched Apollo 8the first manned mission to make a flight around the moon. That achievement, both for the media and political magnitude, totally overshadow the Soviet history.
Anyway, the mission Zond 5 It meant a decisive step for spatial biology. Since thanks to her it was shown that the longest trips were viable and that life could resist outside the low terrestrial orbit.
Source: Ambito
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