Big happenings at the Cosmodrome!
by Robert Krulwich
How he got to
live there, I don't know. For one thing he's a gopher, not a cosmonaut
or a rocket engineer, just an ordinary Kazhakh rodent who dug himself a
hole. The hole, however, is smack in the middle of a rocket launching
facility, one of the most active spaceports in the world, called the
Cosmodrome.
Located in Baikonur, in
Kazhakhstan, this is the place that launched Sputnik in 1957, sent Yuri
Gagarin into space in 1961, services Soyuz with multiple launches ever
year. It's busy, noisy and it's dangerous — one would think.
But
take a look at this gopher. He (she?) seems more than comfortable.
Giant platforms roll overhead — not a problem. Huge tall things loom
nearby — so what? People come close. Does he care? No. But when someone
sets a camera at the entrance of his home, suddenly he's Mr. Curious.
There is a nice surprise at the end of the video.
CLICK on the gopher guy BELOW:
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