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Apr 11, 2018 · The story of Laika lives on today in websites, YouTube videos, poems and children’s books, at least one of which provides a happy ending for the doomed dog. Laika’s cultural impact has been ...
- Alice George
Nov 3, 2023 · The night before her flight, scientist Vladimir Yazdovsky took Laika home to play with his children, knowing her fate the next day. Of three dogs trained, Laika was put in the Sputnik 2 spacecraft ...
November 3 - Russia today successfully launched a second space satellite. It weighs half a ton and has a dog on board. Laika, the female dog that was a passenger aboard Sputnik II.
Feb 9, 2010 · The Soviet Union launches the first animal to orbit the earth into space—a dog nicknamed Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft.. Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow ...
Oct 31, 2007 · The first Sputnik was done at an incredibly speedy rate, but the second one, Laika’s mission, was put up there in a month, which by any standard—today’s or yesterday’s—is absolutely ...
- Tony Reichhardt
Nov 3, 2017 · PublishedNovember 3, 2017. Laika was a dog with humble beginnings who would become a global star. The first living being to leave the Earth’s orbit, taking off 60 years ago today in the Russian ...
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Nov 4, 2014 · On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union sent Laika, a stray dog picked off the streets of Moscow, on a one-way trip to space. Riding into orbit on Sputnik 2, Laika had one mission: to gauge whether ...
