Adeli suit life form – before sending a human to space - were undertaken by both, particularly with some dogs by the Soviets and chimps by the US (dogs Laika in November 1957 and then Belka and Strelka on Russian Sputnik 5 in August 1960 and Ham the Chimp or Enos the chimp in January and November 1961, respectively, on US Mercury capsules. The Soviets were generally ahead of the US until the late 1960s (first satellite, first animal in space, first lunar flyby, first human object to reach lunar surface, first pictures of the far side of the moon, first human
Safe at Home lost track "Knee Deep in the Blues" (originally a single by Marty Robbins in 1957) from the "Safe at Home" sessions was re-discovered and issued on that anthology, as well as on the 2004 compact disc re-release of "Safe at Home" (the original mid-1980s CD pressing having been on the tiny Shiloh Records). Reviews of "Safe at Home" have been mixed but generally positive. Upon its 1968 release, renowned music journalist Robert Christgau seemed pleasantly surprised by the notion of "four smiling longhairs" playing skillful country music, referring to the album as "a good record and a brilliant conception." Parsons'