Laika was not intended to return alive, and she died shortly after the launch due to overheating and stress. Her body ...

Actor Park Jin-joo successfully completed the first performance of the musical "Laika." ...

The indoor temperature of Sputnik 2 reached 40 degrees. After three hours of severity, Laika's pulse had dropped, everything indicated the dog's high level of stress (EFE/Archive) Although the ...

"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 ...

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.

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.