Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became ...

Laika is remembered by many for being the first living creature to be sent into space, on November 3, 1957. Laika was the only crew member of the second artificial satellite in history, Sputnik II.

Laika, a Soviet dog, earned her place in history as the first living being to orbit Earth in 1957. Launched aboard Sputnik 2 during the Space Race, her mission aimed to study the impact of space ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2 ... and later went on to have a litter of her own with a Kennedy family dog. The President referred to the babies as pupniks.

In case with Yakutian hunting Laika, the breed has almost disappeared due to diseases, but generally speaking the traditional breed suffered greatly from work of the Soviet-time dog handlers.

A letter from the dead dog Laika the first conqueror of space This is the story of her heroic deeds and martyrdom a document of one of many lives it was deemed necessary to sacrifice in the name ...

the space is packed full of the wonder that is stop motion. While the appeal of stop motion is in the physicality of the action, the section of Kubo and the Two Strings showed how Laika also ...

Granted, naming the pet after the pioneering yet perished Soviet space dog from 1957 might give even the dimmest ... established means of remote monitoring and patrolling large sites. Laika sets out ...