My apologies for the misinformation. So she was simply the first
vertebrate to ORBIT. What types of invertebrate creatures went into space
before her? I guess I'll have to look into the other sub-orbital dogs.
What can you tell me about them (off-list of course)?
-James
>I can't resist, since this is my specialty...
>
>Laika was not the first creature in space. She was the first _vertebrate_
>to orbit the Earth. A scrappy little street dog from the Moscow streets, she
>lived up to her name ("Little Barker") barking forlornly for several days in
>zero-g until her oxygen ran out. There was no way to get her home, as
>re-entry systems were still being designed that would allow a vertebrate to
>survive.
>
>Several dogs actually flew on R-7 sub-orbital flights before Laika, and so
>technically got into space first.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Elliott [SMTP:rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com]
>>
>> And let us also remember Laika, the first creature ever to travel into
>> space. Her death was forty-four years ago this weekend.
>>
>> -James
>
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