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Tag Archives: space
November 3, 1957
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1957 the Soviet Union launched a dog into space on board Sputnik 2 and it became the first living animal to enter the Earth’s orbit. When the Russian Federal Space Agency was asked why they sent a dog, they replied that the cat was too ‘blin’ smart to get … Continue reading
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Tagged animal firsts, bacon, blin, cats, dogs, Earth, orbit, Russian Space Program, Russians, space, why cats are smarter
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December 24, 1965
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1965 a 100 pound meteorite broke apart and crashed over Barwell, Leicestershire, England. No one was injured, no strange plant became sentient, no mutations of children were noticed, and no weird diseases developed. Barwell, Leicestershire is still the same idyllic, pastoral village of 8,750 people that it was in … Continue reading
November 29, 1961
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1961, the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by NASA with Enos ‘Chim-Chim’ the Chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before safely landing in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico. Immediately afterwards, Chim-Chim was interviewed by Primate Monthly and asked how if felt to … Continue reading
September 8, 1966
On THIS DATE IN TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1966, Star Trek premiered on TV, and the term Trekkie was born. Finally, adolescent teenage boys could put their train sets away and watch space travel with scantily dressed women in mini-skirts and go-go boots come alive on their TV screens in full living color. Green-skinned hot-eyed alien women … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, explorers, geeks, nerds, space, television, women
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August 24, 2006
On THIS DATE IN TWISTED-HISTORY! in 2006, the member planets of the Solar System were called together to vote on the membership applications of Ceres, Makemake, and Eris. The planet Mercury was enthusiastic in its pleading to allow the three new solar bodies as planets and was elated to have three new guys that were … Continue reading
August 7, 1985
On This Day In History! in 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai were chosen as Japan’s first astronauts. The astronauts were trained to fly and operate the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam and took it on its first test flight on October 3, 1986. Also on October 3, 1986, Mothra and Gamera flew over … Continue reading
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Tagged geology, monsters, space, the japanese
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July 27, 1999
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY on July 27th, 1999, the Space Shuttle Discovery landed at the Kennedy Space Center and made history as this was the first Space Shuttle mission with a woman commander, Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins. Immediately after landing, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby took over and parallel parked the shuttle at the landing … Continue reading
July 22, 1962
On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1962, NASA officially announced that the Mariner 1 spacecraft flew erratically several minutes after launch and had to be destroyed. Unofficially, Simon Beauchamp, one of the systems analysts that was on duty was later heard to be mumbling at one of the local bars outside Cape Canaveral that Mariner … Continue reading
July 16, 1994
On July 16, 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with and impregnated the planet Jupiter just as Edgar Cayce, the dreaming seer, predicted back on March 23, 1937. Planetologists, Pardot Kynes and his son Liet, of the Corrino Corporation have expressed their opinion in the 19 years since the impregnation that when a comet loves a … Continue reading