Laika: Space dog, Soviet hero

Adyson Hammock reporter@greenepublishing.com On Nov. 3, 1957, not even a month after the Soviet Union sent humanity's first artificial satellite into orbit, Sputnik 2 was launched – containing a single live passenger, a little shaggy dog from the streets of Moscow. The ship itself was obviously a showoff of Communist skill, as it was built to fly twice as high as Sputnik 1, while being double the weight. A week before the launch, Moscow radio launched an interview with the passenger of t