Astrodog gets statue
by friver ~ April 12th, 2008. Filed under: Animals, History, Space. 
Hats off to Laika: intrepid space explorer and science subject, dutiful citizen to the motherland, first mammal in space. That’s a pretty long way for a stray mutt to come.
50 years later, Russia is commemorating the pioneering pooch with a statue in her honor at a military research unit near Moscow.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Thanks for writing this.