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Those of you who just read the title of this post, were probably expecting to see Yuri Gagarin, well this post isn’t about him. Not many may know this, but in the 1950s, way before USSR had put it’s first man into space, they were actively using domestic animals while developing their space program. As you can see here they are using a piggy, It doesn’t really look like this piggy went as high up as “space”, it was most likely a test flight of a certain components. Later on the Soviets had used dogs which they flew all the way into space…