Laika the Astro-Dog
Sportdogging Magazine
At the dawn of the U.S. and Soviet space race, not much was known about how living things would survive in space. Instead of launching a human being, the Russian space program decided to send a small dog named Laika into space aboard Sputnik II. The Russians put enough food in the spacecraft to feed Laika for a week. But it was soon uncovered that Sputnik II was never expected to return to Earth. The good news is that after the Laika experiment, the ethics of the space program were put under a microscope.
