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

One of which, named Pushinka, was given as a gift to President John Kennedy, and later went on to have a litter of her own with a Kennedy family dog ... preceded them into space, on January ...

dogs, and cats to figure out how humans could survive leaving Earth. Countries including the US, the USSR, France, and China sent insects, mammals, fish, and reptiles into space from the 1940s as ...

Laika is remembered by many for being the first living creature to be sent into space ... who was named Laika. The dog would die in space. The protests were heard from all over the world to ...

Do not go out on thin ice.' Belka shares the name of one of the famous Soviet space dogs sent into orbit aboard Sputnik 5 spacecraft in 1960. But Russians are comparing the loyal pet to the famous ...

Frank: Actually I did quite a lot of reading, I know about the dogs that were sent into space because Laika was the first dog that went into space. But there were lots of dogs that were trained to ...