Soviet Space Dog

This book is dedicated to the soviet space dogs who played a crucial part in the soviet space program.

Soviet space dog. In this period the soviet union launched missions with passenger slots for at least 57 dogs. These homeless dogs plucked from the streets of moscow were selected because they fitted the program s criteria. Weighing no more than 15 pounds measuring no more than 14 inches in length robust photogenic and with a calm temperament.

Laika part siberian husky lived as a stray on the moscow streets before being. During the 1950s and 1960s the soviet space program used dogs for sub orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. The number of dogs in space is smaller as some dogs flew more than once.

Laika a stray mongrel from the streets of moscow was selected to be the occupant of the soviet spacecraft sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on 3 november 1957. The soviet union launches the first animal into space a dog name laika aboard the sputnik 2 spacecraft. The sad sad story of laika the space dog and her one way trip into orbit a stray moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven day oxygen supply.

1954 3 november 1957 was a soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space and the first animal to orbit the earth. The few that died were lost mostly through technical failures according to the parameters of the test. Laika was a soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space and the first animal to orbit the earth.

Laika a stray dog scooped off the streets of moscow launched on the soviet union s sputnik 2 mission in november 1957 just a month after sputnik 1 s liftoff opened the space age.