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
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays on September 28, 1996, at the Berlin Schaubühne, and was followed by 20 performances in October. It was performed in German, translated by German playwright Botho Strauß. 'The Man from the USSR' was first produced in Berlin in 1926, and the first act was published in "Rul"' on January 1 the following year. 'The Event' was written in Paris in 1938, and was published in "Russkie kapiskie" ("Russian Annuls"). The plot follows a painter in tsarist Russia and his wife as they await a convict who has threatened them with violence. 'The Granddad' is a one-act verse play, which was