Illustration in memory of Laika, Renia Metallino

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. Sad as this tale is, the stray husky-spitz mix became a part of history as the first living creature to orbit the Earth.

Lajka <3 Jedan divan pas koji nije bio svestan svoje velicine i svog doprinosa covecanstvu...

Tuzno ja nikad nebi koristila zivotinje u tim eksperimentima, ko zna kakvu je agoniju i muke prezivela kad je krenula da se gusi i umire, tamo gore negde sama,

Uvek sam bila protiv da se neciji zivot koristi za dobrobit nauke..Lajka je bila neko ko nije imao pravo glasa, koja je dozivela tesku smrt. Svaki zivot je vazan pa i pseci... Nisam za te eksperimente na zivotinjama, neka se ljudi malo uozbilje, i ne izmisljaju razne bolesti itd...Hocemo mi na mesec..Pa ni zemlju ne umemo da cuvamo, a hocemo na mesec....

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Jesi ti dobila ovo haha

The Soviet Union stunned the world on Nov. 3, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 2. On board the small satellite was a little dog, Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth. However, Laika was not the first animal in space. The United States and the U.S.S.R. had been putting animals atop rockets since 1947.

In the early days of rocket science, no one knew what the effects of weightlessness would be. Animals — mainly dogs, monkeys and chimps — were used to test the safety and feasibility of launching a living being into space and bringing it back unharmed.

Since then, animals have continued to play an important role in understanding the impact of microgravity on many biological functions. Astronauts have studied all kinds of animals — wasps, beetles, tortoises, flies, worms, fish, spiders, rabbits, bees, ants, frogs, mice, crickets, rats, newts, snails, urchins, moths, brine shrimp, jellyfish, guinea pigs, butterflies, scorpions and Laika was a young, mostly-Siberian husky. She was rescued from the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that a stray dog would have already learned to endure harsh conditions of hunger and cold temperatures. Laika and two other dogs were trained for space travel by being kept in small cages and learning to eat a nutritious gel that would be their food in space. The dog's name was originally Kudryavka, or Little Curly, but she became known internationally as Laika, a Russian word for several breeds of dog similar to a husky. American reporters dubbed her Muttnik as a pun on Sputnik.

Unfortunately, Laika's trip into space was one-way only. A re-entry strategy could not be worked out in time for the launch. It is unknown exactly how long Laika lived in orbit — perhaps a few hours or a few days — until the power to her life-support system gave out. Sputnik 2 burned up in the upper atmosphere in April 1958. Although there is no distinct boundary between the atmosphere and space, an imaginary line about 68 miles (110 kilometers) from the surface, called the Karman line, is usually where scientists say Earth's atmosphere meets outer space.

The first animals to reach space — not counting any bacteria that may have hitched a ride on previous rockets — were fruit flies. On Feb. 20, 1947, the United States put fruit flies aboard captured German V-2 rockets to study radiation exposure at high altitudes. In 3 minutes and 10 seconds, the fruit flies reached a distance of 68 miles. The first mammal in space was Albert II, a Rhesus monkey. Albert I's mission had been unsuccessful, but the second Albert reached a distance of 83 miles on June 14, 1949. Albert was anesthetized during flight and implanted with sensors to measure his vital signs. Unfortunately, Albert II died upon impact at re-entry.

While the United States was experimenting with monkeys, the Soviet Union was experimenting with dogs. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union had slots for at least 57 dogs. However, because some dogs flew more than once, fewer than 57 actually participated.

The first dogs launched, Tsygan and Dezik, were aboard the R-1 IIIA-1. The dogs reached space on July 22, 1951, but did not orbit. They were the first mammals successfully recovered from spaceflight.

After Laika, the Soviet Union sent two more dogs, Belka and Strelka, into space on Aug. 19, 1960. The animals were the first to actually orbit and return alive.

na zalost, kao sto rece bata bane, svaki napredak zahteva odredjene zrtve, danas nismo ni svesni koliko smo dobili time sto smo koristili a i dalje koristimo zivotinje u cilju ljudske dobrobiti, lajka je samo simbol svih ti zivotinja cija patnja nam danas omogucava bolji zivot

It's too cruel that human make use of animals' life for experiment. Animals have the right to live in the world.

Prije mjesec dana su poslali robote-vozila na Mars. Slijeću na neki brežuljak na Marsu, vulkan, koji je dobio ime po bosanskom seocetu. A sve se dešava na @Apela rođendan Apelin u februaru.

Lajka je legenda. Nazalost, nije bas human potez, jos jedno zamorce :( sto je najgore, i danas vrse eksperimente na zivotinjama

Pretpostavlja se da je živjela koliko je imala kisika u kapsuli, iako neki tvrde da je 3. studenog 1957. uginula odmah od previsoke temperature, a neki da je uginula pojevši otrov u posljednjem predviđenom obroku.

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