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Laika and her crew: ‘Space Dogs’ documentary explores Moscow through a stray’s eyes – Livescience.com
The film features never-before-seen footage of Laika and other Soviet canine explorers.
A new film channels the spirit and traces the lineage of Laika
, the first creature ever to orbit Earth.
Laika, a stray dog scooped off the streets of Moscow, launched on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957, just a month after Sputnik 1’s liftoff
opened the space age. The 11-lb. (5 kilograms) mixed-breed quickly died of overheating and circled Earth as a corpse until April 1958, when Sputnik 2 fell back into the atmosphere and burned up.
Laika was sacrificed to aid humanit…
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