The story of Laika, the first dog in space, has been shrouded in legend, misinformation, and propaganda since she first ...

On April 11, 2008, a monument of Laika, the first dog in space, was unveiled by Russian officials at the Moscow military research facility, where she was prepared for her flight into orbit. In the ...

In outer space’s cold, dark expanse, astronauts will soon have warmth from an adorable robot companion, Laika. It’s a robotic dog invented by Hongik University student Jihee Kim. Besides being cute, ...

Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika, a dog whose flight to space more than 50 years ago paved the way for human space missions. The small monument is near a military research facility in ...

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 ...

Sixty-eight years ago, on November 3, 1957, the world witnessed a historic yet heartbreaking moment when a small stray dog from Moscow, named Laika, became the first living creature to orbit Earth.

Not all scientific achievements are made by man. In fact, one of the greatest accomplishments was made by a dog. Meet Laika, the dog who—quite literally—went where no man had gone before (or woman, ...

Laika died in 1957. She's one of the tragic prologues of Russia's move into human spaceflight; a terrier mongrel that was picked up from the streets of Russia and launched into geocentric orbit as ...

She didn't have a name when they found her on the streets of Moscow, but she became known as Laika, which means "barker." On Nov. 3, 1957, this mild-tempered mutt entered the history books and the ...