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How Laika was lost in space
Laika, a Soviet street dog, was sent on Sputnik 2's one-way mission to study space effects on living beings but died within hours due to overheating, scientists later confirmed.
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The tragedy of Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth
A model of Laika inside a replica of Sputnik 2 at the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics in Moscow. | Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, Arizona. I stood in line to squint through telescopes at Jupiter and the surface of the moon before the night turned cloudy and drove me inside the Astronomy Discovery Center mu…
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