Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...

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 ...

On November 3, 1957, Laika, a dog aboard Sputnik 2, made history as the first living creature launched into space. This mission aimed to assess the feasibility of sending a living organism into ...

On November 3rd 1957 the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik II spacecraft into orbit. The satellite carried Laika the dog, who became the first living creature to orbit the planet. This is our ...