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в†‘ 'A New Monument for Laika, Russia's Heroic Space Dog'.в†‘ 'Message from the First Dog in Space Received 45 Years Too Late'.в†‘ Dick Abadzis, afterword to Laika, First Second, 2007, ISBN 1-59643-302-7.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) A chronology and annotated bibliography through the year 1960'. 'Abstract:Some Unknown Pages of the Living Organisms' First Orbital Flight'. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Laika, a stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. 'Space dog Monument opens in Russia: over 50 years ago Laika's sacrifice paved way for human space flight'. 1954 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. в†‘ Vladimir Isachenkov (11 April 2008).'Russia opens monument to space dog Laika'. в†‘ 'Laika the Dog & the First Animals in Space'.Laika & the Cosmonauts, a Finnish surf rock band, were named for Laika. She also appears on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow. It is of a dog standing on top of a rocket. It was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's space flight. On April 11, 2008, Russian officials opened a monument to Laika. Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 burned up-along with Laika's remains-during re-entry on April 14, 1958. We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. It was not until 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that Oleg Gazenko, one of the top-level scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, said he was sorry for allowing her to die: In the Soviet Union, during the following years, no one openly questioned the decision to send a dog into space. Another untruth, as the Soviet government first said, was that she was euthanised (put to sleep) before her oxygen ran out. Instead, it was reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six. The true cause and time of her death were hidden from people until 2002.

The heat in her spacecraft had quickly risen to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Her body temperature got way too hot for her to survive. Laika died within hours from overheating. One of the technicians getting the capsule ready before final lift-off said that 'after placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight.' Death in space Vladimir Yazdovsky wrote: 'Laika was quiet and charming.I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.' Д«efore her trip in Sputnik, one of the scientists took Laika home to play with his children. It was necessary to send a dog first as a test, because it was not thought that humans could live in outer space. So all the scientists knew there would be no way for Laika to survive her trip.

There was also no way, at that time, to bring the satellite back down to Earth. Not much was known about how spaceflight would affect living animals at the time of Laika's mission.

Laika the dog