On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into space. She rode aboard the Sputnik 2 with only one meal and a seven-day oxygen supply. She made history as the first living ...

Just a month after propelling the first satellite into space, the Soviet Union had made headlines again with Sputnik 2, which sent the first animal, a dog, into orbit. With two failed launch ...

The rocket that lifted Laika to space was dubbed Sputnik 2, but that concealed its ominous pedigree: it was actually a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile. Western media covered the ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite will remain in orbit for 162 days, scientists plan to put Laika to sleep after a week because there is no way ...

From fruit flies to monkeys and even a tortoise, a variety of animals have made the historic journey beyond our planet.

Just a month later, on 3 November, the Soviet Union chalked up another iconic first, shooting Laika, the most famous of the Soviet space dogs, into orbit on the considerably larger Sputnik 2.

It is fifty years since the launch of Sputnik. The ensuing ... Solar System (Pioneer 10/11, Voyager 1/2, Galileo, Cassini and New Horizons). The manned space programme also proceeded swiftly.

Ape to ride next Sputnik, dog still alive in No. 2 By ... "dog days" for the American scientific male. Soviets blast 2 men into space United Press International A Soviet cosmonaut left his space ...