Laika

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Before humans reached orbit, a stray dog from Moscow got there first. Laika launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957 — becoming the first living creature to orbit E arth. Her mission was always one-way, a sacrifice made at the dawn of the Space Age when the stakes were existential and the answers unknown. She gave scientists their first real look at how a living body responds to spaceflight. History remembers her. So do we. Show more