History: This is Laika, the first animal ever to be sent up into orbit. She was a Moscow stray before she was a Cosmonaut. Nobody expected her to survive the trip, and she didn’t. There’s now a monument erected to her in Moscow, of a dog standing on a rocket.[616x436]

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