Bring home the bacon...

The first thing anybody who knows me knows is that I have a deep abiding love for animals who offer themselves to science. The second thing they know is that I'm absolutely nuts about the Soviet Space Program era... Therefore the discovery of this rare documentary footage warms the cockles of my heart to the point of melting my heat shields. Is it real?
Oh please, of course it's real. As real as the moon landing.

You'll need to click here for the full cosmonaut pig in space effect.

(Stills from "First on the Moon" by Alexei Fedorchenko)