Who else remembers Laika?

[benburch]

http://news.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/38393000/jpg/_38393383_laikatv150.jpg

[Xipe Totec]

1. I do!

First dog in space.

[jilln]

2. Did they bring her home?

Or did they just let her fly around out there til she starved to death?

[Xipe Totec]

3. Sounds like you already now the answer n/t

[CanuckAmok]

4. Dupe!

Wow, what are the odds?!

[benburch]

5. Amazing.

I wouldn't have bet on it.

[FLSurfer]

6. I don't remember her

nor had I heard of her. What a truly sad story.

[Bridget Burke]

7. Here's Laika's story....

Including the most recent theory on how she died.

www.novareinna.com/bridge/laika.html

In November of 1997, a plaque commemorating the contributions of Laika and other animals which were studied in the space program was unveiled at the Institute for Aviation and Space Medicine at Star City, just outside Moscow. The monument itself pays tribute to the fallen Russian cosmonauts, but in a corner is the image of a small mongrel dog...ears standing straight. A year later, one of the former lead scientists who had worked on the Soviet "animals-in-space" program expressed his deep regrets regarding Laika:

"The more time passes, the more I'm sorry....
We shouldn't have done it....
We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog."