Laika was a friendly stray found in Moscow and believed to be just three years old when she was sent on a doomed one-way ...

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"She died before reaching orbit, and before any real data was gleaned about sustaining life in that environment," says Dr. Stanley Coren, professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia ...

On board Sputnik 2 was Laika, a stray dog, who became the first living creature to orbit the earth in a spacecraft. They did not expect her to survive the mission. They wanted to test what would ...