When I saw the dog go up, I said, 'My God, we better get going because it's going to be a legitimate program to put man in space,'" Robert Gilruth, who later became the first director of what is ...

What Happened to the First Dog in Space?Subscribe to Top 10s ... story about Laika who was the dog selected to go into orbit and then outer space! #Space #Dogs #AnimationTimestamps:00:30 ...

and carrying the first living thing to go into orbit - the dog Laika. The animal had been a stray wandering the streets of Moscow when she was captured and prepared for a space mission. Shortly after ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard ...

Despite the small dog holding the unique title of being one of the first animals in space, it offered no comfort as she was propelled away from earth, the sole passenger aboard the Sputnik 2 ...

Laika was the first dog to go to space as part of the USSR and the US’s bitter cosmological rivalry was at its peak during the Cold War. The US had already won the plaudits for the first living ...

November 3 - Russia today successfully launched a second space satellite ... one of the Soviet scientists who created the first satellite, said the dog “has already made some rocket flights ...