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 mission to space aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft in 1957 ...

Here's the heartbreaking story of Laika... Who was Laika?Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was in fact, the first living creature to orbit the Earth, who was launched aboard the ...