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Space Dog: The Animal of Regret
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
The first-ever animal to orbit the Earth and to die in space was a dog named “Laika” (Russian for “Barker”). When the Soviets launched Sputnik 2 in 1957, Laika out-performed two other dogs to earn the dubious honor of participating in this experiment on the impact of spaceflight on living creatures. Laika’s reward was a…
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