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File:LaikaMLC.mp4 '''The dog Laika being prepared for Sputnik 2 flight''' Category:Movie Category:The Michael Lennick Collection

... spaceflight provided invaluable knowledge to scientists on how living beings react to spaceflight. Prior to Laika, Dezik and Tsygan were the first dogs to make a suborbital flight in 1951, reaching ... of the early days were: (English translations of the Russian names are shown in parentheses) Laika (Barker) 1957 Bars (Panther or Lynx) 1960 Lisichka (Little Fox) 1960 Belka (Whitey or Squirrel ... ) 1961 Zvezdochka (Little Star) 1961 Veterok (Little Wind) 1966 Ugolyok (Little Piece of Coal) 1966 Laika, first living being to be launched into orbit from Earth. Source: http://www.zarya.info ...

... once as a backup for the Navy Vanguard Program Vanguard ." Of SPUTNIK II which orbited "Laika" on November 3, 1957, President Eisenhower said it did not arouse American public opinion because ... a few days later by announcing that they had put poison in the last of Laika's rations... "The public, however, became bewildered and upset when word got out that a ...

... 15 In 1958, Sputnik-2 carried the first living creature into orbit. This dog named Laika was equipped with a comprehensive array of telemetry sensors. These sensors gave continuous physiological information to tracking stations. Laika’s flight demonstrated that spaceflight was tolerable to animals. Other dogs, as well as mice ...

... cosmonaut. Stories to the contrary are fabrications. . "Human Safety: . . . The Russians sent up without recovery Laika , four years before Gagarin. The Vostok ship itself completed 100 orbits of fully controlled flight ...

... Nephadsreg, he said that first Soviet passengers around moon might be offspring of space dog Laika . Manned spacecraft would not be launched until neces­sary experience had been gained. ''(AP, B ...

SPUTNIK II , the world's second manmade satellite, launched by U.S.S.R. and remained in orbit until April 13, 1958, carrying a dog named " Laika ." It was the first vehicle to carry a living organism into orbit.

Pravda reported on Soviet satellite findings that Laika's heartbeat had taken three times as long as expected to return to normal. Weightlessness ...

... Soviet space firsts- Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and Sputnik 2 carrying the dog Laika into space on November 3, 1957-the United States had entered the space race that ...

... in 1949. The first living being to be placed in an orbit in space was Laika, a Russian dog who flew in Sputnik 2 in 1957. ---- Answer provided by Bijal Thakore ...

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