Remembering Laika – the first dog to orbit Earth

The first living creature to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 (史普尼克2號) on 3 November, 1957. Soviet rocket scientists wanted to send animals to space to better understand what launch (火箭發射), microgravity (微重力) and other aspects of spaceflight might do to a human body. So they collected stray dogs (流浪狗)to conduct experiments beforehand. Who ...Read More

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