On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into space. She rode aboard the Sputnik 2 with only one meal and a seven-day oxygen supply. She made history as the first living ...

A stray dog wandering the streets of Russia may have played a key role in inspiring the Soviet space program. Before Laika became the first dog in space, scientists tested how stray dogs adapted ...

the most famous of the Soviet space dogs, into orbit on the considerably larger Sputnik 2. She didn’t make it back to Earth. For decades, the official line was that she died painlessly after ...

Granted, naming the pet after the pioneering yet perished Soviet space dog from 1957 might give even the dimmest AI pause for thought, but the intention is a serious one: an astronaut needs unstinting ...

The dog would die in space. The protests were heard from all ... The name Laika (barker in Russian) became more than popular among those used for dogs of that time. Most of the dogs of that ...

Parr’s new book Space Dogs commemorates his fascination with the various items ... A piece of memorabilia in itself, the book cements these unlikely Soviet stars in the annals of space history.