Laika - Russian female stray dog selected and trained by scientist Oleg Gazenko, to become the first living creature to enter orbit. The poor animal was placed on the satellite Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, and then launched to space, dying of fright, in a overheated cabin, just after take-off — as the scientists admitted years later (after the end of the Soviet Union); the official version till then was that Laika had died from oxygen starvation. Anyway, she would have been euthanized with poisoned food before the satellite destruction during re-entry, according to original plans. Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for the project said, in 1998: The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.
Laika
(Barker) was approximately three years old. Originally named Kudryavka
(Little Curly), Laika was given several nicknames during her training,
among them Zhuchka (Little Bug) and Limonchik (Little Lemon).
Her statue is near the Moscow's Military Medicine Institute and was unveiled on the Cosmonautics Day eve; she is on top of a rocket; there is an earlier monument in honor to Laika, see it here.
http://br.geocities.com/anton_tijolinho/english/statues/ijkl/#Jim
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