Black-and-white photographs authentically show Laika, a Moscow mutt sent to space aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957. Rating: True (About this rating?) Black-and-white photographs shared by some social ...

To the amazement of a world already fascinated or, in many cases, frightened by the advent of Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 delivered a dog called Laika to orbit, thus arguably opening the field of veterinary ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous ... have a litter of her own with a Kennedy family dog. The President referred to the babies as pupniks.

Meanwhile, Sputnik II - the second earth satellite - orbited around the earth with a live dog aboard as the first ... $725M security aid for Ukraine Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense ...

The first one was essentially a stunt, and the second one had an animal payload and thermal problems that killed the canine occupant, [Laika]. Most people don’t remember the later Sputnik missions.

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 ...

Just a month later, on 3 November, the Soviet Union chalked up another iconic first, shooting Laika, the most famous of the Soviet space dogs, into orbit on the considerably larger Sputnik 2.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 into orbit; on board was a dog named Laika, which died in the space experiment. • In 1979, five people were killed when gunfire erupted during an ...