A leader of a rescue group immediately recognized Apollo, one of millions of stray dogs in Egypt, barking at birds atop the ...

The same is true of the first animals in space ... Laika—an 11-lb., part-terrier mongrel, picked up on the streets of Moscow—began providing answers, when the Soviet Union launched her into ...

A monkey sent into space by Iran ... One of the best known is Laika who travelled into space on board the spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957. Sadly Laika's journey was only one way.

It’s what Laika would have said ... The US continued to send monkeys into space during the 40s and 50s. Most of them met similarly grizzly fates. While the Soviets were clearly trailing the ...

Later reports indicate that Laika died soon after liftoff ... Yegorov all fly on Voskhod 1, the first mission to send multiple men into space. March 18: Voskhod 2 carries Pavel Belyayev and ...

When Simon Reynolds coined the term “post-rock” in 1993, he was probably describing Laika. Duo Margaret Fiedler and Guy Fixsen dispensed with rock’s straitjacket and harnessed Coltrane jazz ...

A small but poignant exhibition in Museum of Flight is dedicated to the first animals in space, providing trivia and archival ...

As the Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth it sent back a radio ... living creature in space. Laika did not survive the flight, but in May 1959 two monkeys were launched into space by the USA ...

A scene from Coraline, Laika's first feature from 2009 ... so the animators can physically get into the space to do their work. After all, it is they who are essentially creating the physical ...

Filmmakers Chris and Justin Copeland, aka The Copeland Brothers, have been tapped to develop new animated feature projects ...

But, never have we ever anticipated a product to actually go out of this world — out of our homes, and into space. You read that correctly. For the first time ever, acclaimed smart cleaning ...