historicaltimes:This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stra
historicaltimes:This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stray before she was a Cosmonaut. Nobody expected her to survive the trip, and she didn’t. There’s now a monument erected to her in Moscow, of a dog standing on a rocket. via reddit -- source link