Laika The Dog & What Happened To Her

You are watching the first section of my feature documentary, Sputnik Mania, released in late 2008. It was made with my talented editor/ally John Vincent Barrett. In making this I decided intentionally not to make a TV special but to make a feature, with music and narrator, and drama not common in TV docs. I am proud of his work and hope you enjoy it. David Hoffman. Www.theHoffmancollection.com.

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[Mitoful3000]

4:46 are they real images of Laika in space?

[allinaday]

@Mitoful3000 -There were no images taken of Laika in space. My documentary does not show her in space either. But some of the tests were done with Laika or another dog that the Russians had just like her. Thank you. David Hoffman–filmmaker

[Bigfrie192]

Laika... Abandoned at birth, thrown away to fend for herself, then grabbed from the cold streets of Moscow by glory seeking humans and sent off, all alone and scared, to the dark depths of space and certain death. She died the same way she came in to this world... alone. :'(

[allys1101]

that poor dog.... may she be the bravest dog on earth and rest ing peace.....

[shananagans5]

The first space rover. 

[zawlinmoe]

So... we breed billions of animals a year for food and yet a single dog, who died 50 years ago in the service of human advancement, is mourned like a martyr. People are strange.

[PcRoX123hackedACC]

the only thing she wanted was to have an owner and not die from hunger, she'd already spent all of her life as a slumdog i bet that's why they took her like that, i bet she was tired of being alone and when she saw humans looking around for something she exposed herself, expecting to be picked up by a loving child's arms and taken home where she would remain happily for the rest of her life, but instead only to be launched into the cold vastness of space to die in the name of science.

truly sad

[rickbrownell]

@allinaday I actually read from a couple of different historic sources that they were real images. It is definitely true that Laika II (2nd &/or 3rd space shots later that year in early in '58) were real because they did put a camera in the capsule.

[brothersmith3]

Sad.

[dinoss9]

The human ras is the worst things that god allah and kerstman have made in this world we are all retards

[ZaNeCuDdEr]

im crying :'(

[R3V0LUTIONxClanVids]

@Bigfrie192 the night before the launch however one of the russian scientists took her home with him to play with his kids and comfort her before she was killed, she died, but i don't think she died suffering

[StefyStuff]

@Mitoful3000 it's still very sad.