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1. Tractors in Tomsk, TikTok, and Space Movies

In this week's Odder News, don't drink and drive your tractor, ticket-taking grandmothers are surprisingly entertaining, and the Russians win the new space race by a hair.

Tags: space, space women, space race, international space station, Crimea, birds, TikTok, tomsk
2. Kosmonaughties

“A**holes. Superpowers do not behave that way."

– On April 13, Roscosmos head Dmitriy Rogozin criticized the U.S. Department of State in a Tweet for failing to mention Yuri Gagarin in a Facebook post that commemorates 60 years since the first man flew in space. Such a pity to forget who got there first.

Tags: space, dmitiry rogozin, yuri gagarin, space race
3. A Veritable Musk-see

The world-famous billionaire reached out to the family of a Soviet rocket scientist to visit SpaceX.

Tags: space race, elon musk
4. Space Dogs

The first earthling to perish in space was the Soviet space dog Laika. Soon thereafter, the first earthlings to orbit the planet – 60 years ago this summer – were Belka and Strelka.

Tags: animals, space race, space
5. The Final Frontier of Communism

Take a rocket launch into the dizzying expanses of Soviet space propaganda.

Tags: soviet union, soviet, propaganda, space women, space race, space, cosmonaut, tereshkova, gagarin
6. The First Canine Cosmonauts

The Soviet Union’s first pair of pups launched into space on July 22, 1951, and their suborbital flight was a big pawprint in the Cold War Space Race.​

Tags: space race, rocket, russia, dogs, soviet union, space, cold war
By Alice E.M. Underwood

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