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Laika a stray mongrel from the streets of moscow was selected to be the occupant of the soviet spacecraft sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on 3 november 1957.
First dog in space to survive. Albina laika and mushka. One of the pups was named pushinka pushinka fluffy and was presented to president john f. Kennedy by nikita khrushchev in 1961. Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named pushok who participated in many ground based space experiments but never made it into space.
In her last moments laika was confused and afraidand if the facts of history had been different she just might have returned home. Although belka and strelka made history 55 years ago you can still meet these russian heroes. Mushka was used to test instrumentation and life support. Albina was the first backup having flown twice on a high altitude rocket.
The distinction of first dogs to orbit the earth and survive belongs to belka and strelka. Laika was not the first space dog. 1954 3 november 1957 was a soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space and the first animal to orbit the earth. Three dogs were trained for the sputnik 2 flight.
