LAIKA, FIRST IN SPACE

IT'S A BITCH BEING FIRST!

On November 3, 1957, Laika the dog rode Sputnik 2 into outer space, the first living creature to reach Earth orbit - but unlike all the animals and humans who followed, hers was a one-way ticket only.

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Film & Animation

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• laika
• sputnik
• space
• dog
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• footage
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• pooch

[Steeplerot]

This was from the old late night show Night Flight in the 80's I am sure.

[laikaspace]

@Steeplerot

Don't think so - I made it from bits and clips I collected online. Wish I'd seen Night Flight, though.

[mouthyweasel]

Poor dog! Humans are cruel idiots. Don't send a sweet innocent dog. Send murderers and serial killers and cannibals instead of paying millions of dollars on their life sentences. But a sweet little dog? WTF, man?!!!

[PinchMeImDead]

It's funny how people say she's a hero. Dogs have no concept of "heroism." For her, she was betrayed and murdered by the people who cared for her. She died alone, scared and in pain. For everyone saying that it's better to send a dog than a human: when you think about it, what's the point of sending a living thing into space anyway? You don't need a living thing inside a satellite to have it function! We are not meant to travel up there. If we were, there'd be vital resources out there!

[charlesiniesta1]

Actually they used laika because it had endured harsh conditions being a stray..not just to give her a home

[DANIK42095]

@RainyMoodGames SHUT THE FUCK UP! look at fucking NASA! many years later Belka and Strelka (2 dogs) were launched by the russians and came back safely, and NASA at that time FUCKING WASTED a ton of chimps in shuttles that exploded after take off! who are we going to blade?

[Spetsnaz2112]

my god animal rights cry babys.. honestly you dont hear from the stray dog that died on the streets you hear abou the one that whent into space this happend in 1957 and its still a marvelous achevment i would have been glad to make history and die as first lifefrom from earth into space laika was a street dog they found starving so they gave it a home and sent into space proving that stray dogs are equal to other dogs that are pampered or just a regular household. so really.., laika was lucky...

[RainyMoodGames]

i liked not cause it was good or important to send anyone in space, especcialy a dog, i likeed, because laika was betrayed and killed by cruel people, and this is kinda like a reminder of her, what i wanted to say, fuck you all who send animals in space, ill put you on a rocker and send to space, then we would see whos in pain and how cruel it was!!!!!! PIECES OF SHIT RUSSIANS!!!! HOPE YOU ALL FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Turandot29]

@coakster3m did your teacher also tell you that the world was created in 7 days? ;)

Laika's spacecraft orbited the earth over 2,000 times before its orbit degraded and it plummeted to earth. Laika was looooong dead before that. They now say she only lived 5 or so hours in space.

,,, Not to mention that the space shuttle program was decades after Laika's flight. Your teacher must have been from Tennessee.

[Turandot29]

So true , WickedRavenOne. Poor Laika's telemetry told us her blood pressure and heart rate were sky high. She was terrified, all alone and in her little dog mind, was bewildered at this treatment by the very people she had grown to trust. She is believed to have died because her cabin overheated in frigid space. How terribly sad.

[Oakleaf700]

Her keeper deeply regrets Laika going into space. Poor little dog.

[SuperCorey95]

@WickedRavenOne Makes me wanna cry! :( Such bravery

[WickedRavenOne]

At the very least she was terrified.