The dog Laika, the first living creature in space, rode there aboard this Russian spacecraft
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Laika the Dog & the First Animals in Space - Space.com  Sep 25, 2012 ... On board the small satellite was a little dog, Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth. ... Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living being in orbit. She was launched on the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957. ... Although there is no distinct boundary between the atmosphere and space,...
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The Sad Story of Laika, the First Dog Launched Into Orbit | TIME  Nov 3, 2014 ... 3, 1957: The Soviet Union sends the first living creature into orbit. ... Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth  were strays, chosen for their scrappiness. (Other dogs had gone into space before Laika, but only for...
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Space Today Online - Animals - Dogs in Space  Let's look at Russia's space dogs first, then the other animals in space. ... where they were ejected to ride safely down to Earth in their ejection seats. ... On board was a live mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian) on a life-support system. ... On July 28, 1960 a test flight related to the Vostok spacecraft was launched.
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Animals in space - Wikipedia  Before human spaceflight, various animals were launched into space, including monkeys, dogs ... The first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a U.S.-launched V-2 ... the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft (nicknamed ... A top speed of 10,000 mph (16,000 km/h) was reached during their...
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Laika - Wikipedia  Laika (Russian: ; c. 1954  November 3, 1957) 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 from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November ... Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the...
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals .... Gagarin became a national hero of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and a...
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Svetlana Y. Savitskaya - International Space Hall of Fame :: New ...  Photograph of Svetlana Savitskaya. First woman to walk in space. ... Svetlana Savitskaya became the fifty-third cosmonaut, and the second ... Soyuz T-12 landed safely on July 29, 1984 after a flight of eleven days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes. ... When watching the Earth from over there, one can see the results of human...
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space - Space.com  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). ... The Russians scored a victory when they launched a small craft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to new heights.
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space - Space.com  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ... More than 200 Russian Air Force fighter pilots were selected as ... Over the course of 108 minutes, Vostok 1 traveled around the Earth ... Regardless, Gagarin still set the record as the first man to leave Earth's orbit and travel into space.
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write - NASA History Homepage  'I'he reader is invited to explore the Shuttle-Mir story through the words, ..... diagrams of U.S. and Russian spacecraft, a video tour of spaceflight histor y, and ... the first Earth creature into orbit, a dog named ..... cooperation is both a challenge and a benefit of shared space ventures. ..... NASA crewmates onboard Discovery.
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6 Surprising Facts About the First Manned Space Mission  Apr 6, 2011 ... Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the ... The total mission lasted just 108 minutes, and the trip once around the ... Soviet Air Force pilot when he made his first and only trip into space.
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A Random Collection of Conspiracy Facts for One to Theorise on ...  The Soviets achieved the first fly-by of the Moon, launched the first craft to impact .... of a living being into space occurred aboard Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika. .... then possibly a flight 'piloted' by a dog or some other such mammalian life form. .... once again ready for launch, but that launch was aborted when an engine...
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space - Space.com  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ... when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). ... The race to the stars ... a pilot, the spherical capsule had little in the way of onboard controls; ... Glenn orbited Earth three times during the flight, which took place...
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NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space  Apr 13, 2011 ... Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 ... and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.
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Fifty years ago, Tereshkova became first woman in space - Phys.org  Jun 14, 2013 ... On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space ... When she blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ... was already in orbit for two days, piloted by cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky. ... She had difficulty in guiding her spaceship and her communications were...
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On April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made 1st ...  On April 12th, in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first ... first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. .... first man in space and first man to orbit the Earth (same trip), on April 12, 1961. ...... the first human in space, as a cadet of the Air Force's Pilot School.
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Soviet space dogs - Wikipedia  During the 1950s and 1960s the USSR used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to ... A notable exception is Laika, the first dog to be sent into orbit, whose death was expected from the outset. .... A Cold War romance bloomed between Pushinka and a Kennedy dog named Charlie resulting in the birth of 4 pups that...
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok .... All of us cosmonauts took up sports and PT seriously when we served in the Air Force. I know that...
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First man in space - Apr 12, 1961 - HISTORY.com  Apr 12, 1981 ... On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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The Space Shuttle's First Flight: STS-1 - NASA History Homepage  The first mission of the space transport system (STS-1) or Space Shuttle, flew on April ... and flight of the spacecraft, as well as the crew of the shuttle, John Young, Robert ... For the Space Shuttle was a true aerospace craft, a reusable vehicle that .... On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Gagarin became the first person to "leave this...
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Alexey Leonov - Wikipedia  Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. ... He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March...