In this animation video we will look at the sad story of Laika who was the first dog in space. During the space race between ...

At the Kapustin Yar test site, scientists were preparing for an experimental launch of dogs into the upper atmosphere ... The test puppy was called ‘ZIB’ (Russian: ‘ЗИБ’) - "Substitute ...

But it looked like the USSR might beat us there. On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite ...

Animal astronauts laid the groundwork for human spaceflight, providing critical data on the physiological effects of space ...

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Granted, naming the pet after the pioneering yet perished Soviet space dog from 1957 might give even the dimmest AI pause for thought, but the intention is a serious one: an astronaut needs unstinting ...

Laika, the Russian stray, was the first dog to orbit the Earth. She was sent into space on a flight in 1957 which had been timed to mark the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. She died after ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s achievements in space exploration belonged to all of the country’s 15 constituent republics and Russia has never tried to split and distribute it ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged 85. With his passing, the world has lost another direct connection to the Cold War space race of the 1960s and 70s.