Reach For The Stars
No whee are not quoting a cheesy pop song or trying to give some motivational speech, whee are actually on about guinea pigs and space travel! This is something Mummy heard about in a paper she read about the history of guinea pigs and has researched to find out more!
Whee guinea piggies are not famous for our space journeys, but whee beat you hoomans into space by about 34 days. The first space travelling guinea piggy went into space on March the 9th 1961 with a dog named Chernushka, a dummy cosmonaut named Ivan Ivanovich, and an assortment of mice and reptiles. Ivan safely parachuted back to earth, and, thankfully, the animals also made it back alive. Sadly, some of the first animals into space weren’t so lucky.
However the first hooman in space was on April the 12th 1961. Oddly, while Major Yuri Gagarin received a promotion and was given the important sounding title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his achievement, there is no record of similar honours for the first guinea piggy in space.
This is not good! Whee cannot even find a single pigture of this brave soul that took one small step for a guinea pig, but one big leap for cavy kind! I have decided, given my good looks and general intelligence I may be descended from this first piggy in space. And it’s with that in mind that I show the following pigtures!
Have you every wished to join the space race? Do you think piggies should be recognized and my great great great great great great grandpig that first cavy in space remembered?!
Nacho
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Posted on August 20, 2013, in Piggy Blogs and tagged animals in space, cavies, cavy, cute, first animals in space, first animals to travel in space, first cavy in space, funny, guinea pig, guinea pig in space, guinea pigs, guinea pigs beat humans into space, guinea pigs in space, rocket animals, small furries, small furry, space travel animals, the first guinea pig in space. Bookmark the permalink. 39 Comments.
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Oh Nacho!! I think you should at least have a hutch erected on the moon!! I was born in 1961 it was a good year for piggies and peeps 🙂 and I always wanted to be an astronaut..but I guess there is more chance of a piggie making space than me!! Have a great day pioneer piggie 🙂 Big hugs Fozziemum xxx
Piggy Pioneer? I like it! ^_^
Nacho
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Me too Nacho!! 🙂
Fozziemum xxx
I think your great great great great great great grandpig needs a statue in his honour! OOooo you should build one!!
Whee should! Maybe I will gets the little hoomans to make a plasticine one!
Nacho
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Guinea pigs are always ahead of the curve! Who knew??
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Always! Hehehhe. Those hoomans are just trying to keep up!
Nacho
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Wow, piggies in space! I did not know that but I don’t want to go…seems a bit too scary for me 🙂
But fun too! Imagine all the shelves of treats you could reach without gravity!
Nacho
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Cats will keep their paws on earth 🙂
But kitties climb trees! That’s nearly the same thing!
Nacho
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Wow! I didn’t know this! How pawesome is that and you should definitely get to go too! You’re a hero! =^.^=
*puffs out furs* I know! ^_^
Nacho
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Why would a pig go? There’s no greenery. Imagine pig poo flying all around the space capsule in the weightless state. I think I’ll stay on earth also.
Hehehe piggy poop isn’t so bad, in fact there is a great poop story I could share . . . but I won’t in case you are eating. Maybe I can post about it soon
Nacho
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There’s no food in space, I’m staying home.
Annie Wigglewhiskers
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Your pictures are very cute Mr. Nacho. My daddy and brothers and sister say “Hi.”
Benwick Wigglewhiskers
There might be food in space. I have heard the moon is made of celery! . . . What was that Mummy? Made of cheese? Yuck.
Erm yep, maybe I’ll stay home too.
Ex Piggy Pioneer Nacho
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Have you considered time travel?
Monday I was at the Getty Villa (J. Paul Getty’s former mansion, built in the style of a Roman Villa, which houses the majority of the Getty Museum’s collection of Greco-Roman art and artifacts). There was a special exhibition on Sicily that closed yesterday. In looking at the coins in the exhibit on loan from a museum in Belgium, I noticed that the ancient coins from the city of Selinos, Sicily feature a Selinon leaf.
What is Selinon, you may ask?
Wild parsley! Well, it’s the ancient Greek name for “parsley,” though the selinon plant tastes more like celery, so recipes often refer to it as “wild celery,” but I’m not sure you’d care about nomenclature, just as long as you could eat it, right?
Check it out: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sicily/selinus/t.html
See critters are far more advanced than humans,xx Speedy
Whee really are! Whee deserve far more respect!
Nacho
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hmmm I think I better stay on slice earth it’s better than to have a problem with an eagle of houston or vice versa :o)
Hehehe well space travel might be fun. I wonder if they would name a planet after me?
Big Dreamer Nacho
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Haven’t you heard, they demote planets now, just ask poor Pluto. If you want something named after you, go be a palentologist piggy and find a new kind of fossil. 🙂
A cavy blasting off into outer space . . . now that was really a day when pigs flew. 🙂 Thank you for the very enlightening lesson and for the very entertaining pigtures, Nacho. I think I’ll stay here on earth. I’m really quite fond of gravity because I’m not very good at catching balls mid-air. 🙂
How about Frisbees? Our Aunties doggies are really good at catching frisbees in the air!
Nacho
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No, I’m afraid I’m not even good at the Frisbee catch, although I do enjoy picking it up from the ground and running around with it. Does that count?
Reblogged this on Princess Guinea and Ariel.
Wow, I didn’t know that!
Neither did Mummy till she read that paper and did some research! It’s really cool though!
Nacho
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You’ll have to practise planting a flag… and swimming in thin air… very adventurous of you 😉
Hmmm swimming in the air, sounds a lot like when Mummy picks me up and tells me it’s bath time!
Nacho
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Mousiez diz iz sumfing speshell!! We finkz ya shuud bee recognized n yer grreat grrreat grrreat…Grandpapa Piggie fer shure!!!
Lub Nylablue…
Pee ess: Me nut shure if me wuud wanna go into Space….me wuud miss Mum far too much!
Good point. Whee will has to take some staff with us to prepare noms and impawtent stuffs like that!
Nacho
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Ya shuud reach fer da starz!!! me iz kind of a ‘litter tween da toeziez’ kind of kitteh….me leavez da space travel to all of ya…. 😉
Lub Nylablue xo
5 -4-3-2-1…….oh dear, flying too fast, want off NOW!!!
That’d be me, I really don’t like to fly at all. It was more fun when the served booze for free 😀 I like your rocket launcher a lot. Very hi-tech, you must be one smart piggy!
Well I like to think so ^_^ I’m sure I’d make a great space pig!
Nacho
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Wow, have never heard that before. Yay for space piggies!
Piggy pioneers, heading across the solar system!
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