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The History of Lyca's Flight

My father operated on Lyca before the flight. In those conditions of weightlessness, how do you give a dog water or feed it? Lyca had seven-day supply of food with her. Her first four orbits around the Earth were registered and all information transmitted to Earth after 10 hours,. And she died from overheating. The system of thermal insulation of her capsule had not been properly developed. So she was effectively cooked. Well, I don't want to use this word about the doggy. She perished from overheating."

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