Canine cosmonaut Laika rests comfortably inside the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 before being blasted into orbit in 1957.Credit ...

Laika was launched into orbit by the Soviet space scientists to test the life expectancy in outer space. The Soviet media ...

In 1963, France launched Félicette, the first cat into space aboard a Véronique AGI 47 rocket. Her 13-minute suborbital ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became the first dog in space after being launched into low orbit aboard Sputnik ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

In February 1966, the Soviet space program launched the dogs Veterok and Ugolyok to beyond the protective Van Allen Belts, which they did to study the prolonged effects of space travel and the ...

Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal to reach space on June 14, 1949, aboard a V-2 rocket, achieving an altitude of approximately 83 miles. The mission successfully recorded Albert II's ...

Human beings have been travelling to space in the wake of numerous research missions, be it Neil Armstrong, the first man to ...