Laika the first animal in space by Fernanda

Laika (Лайка)

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:04:58 UTC

The first animals in space and the first to orbit the Earth.

Biography

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:05:03 UTC

She was born in Russia

Her was a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow at an estimated three years of age and recruited by the Soviet space program.

Video

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Mission

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:14:52 UTC

Her mission was to discover if a living being could be sent to the outside of the planet.

Competition

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:14:55 UTC

The USSR didn't want the U.S. to surpass them, so they decided to take the next step: launch a living being.

Remembered

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:14:59 UTC

In homage they have made a statue of her in Moscow and they also use his name for brands

Video about Laika

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Death

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-09 17:15:15 UTC

She died 7 hours after taking off caused by cardiac arrest that was caused by the stress she was under.

About her death

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-11 03:17:30 UTC

The Soviet Union (URSS) had lied, claiming that it had been euthanized before running out of oxygen, a few days after leaving Earth; However, years later scientists confessed that she died 5 or 7 hours after launch, due to the high temperatures in the cabin and the stress that all this caused her.

Training

chauucananfernanda3009 — 2023-12-11 06:04:39 UTC

Together with other dogs that were also rescued named Albina and Mushka to carry out this experiment, they began hard training; They locked them in small spaces, put them in centrifuges, exposed them to machines that imitated the sounds they heard when taking off, and to electric shocks.