Dogs made history in the race for space
Teddy has never actually been in space. But he’d like to.
Laika was the first living being to orbit the Earth. She was also a little Soviet dog who ultimately lost her life in the Sputnik 2 mission. Laika’s story and that of the other canine cosmonauts is told in the book Soviet Space Dogs. Collector’s Weekly interviewed the publisher here.
We were sad to learn that more than a dozen dogs died during the
