Russian astronauts discovered this in the fifties....
Laika the cosmonaut dog? The first human in space was Gagarin, in 1961.
I'm popping popcorn in anticipation......
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD