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 ...

MOSCOW – Russian officials on Friday 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 ...

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 ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray husky-spitz mix from the streets of Moscow, and she was recruited by the Soviet ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the late 1950s, Moscow’s streets were full of stray dogs that adapted to freezing nights and scarce food. One small mixed‑breed stood out to Soviet researchers for her calm nature and size. She was ...

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 ...

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 ...