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Space Dog Laika

Laika

By Radha KarkiPublished 5 years ago 5 min read
Space Dog Laika
Photo by Dhaya Eddine Bentaleb on Unsplash

One of Mika's colleagues in the Soviet space program recalled that Mika was a very good dog. He brought her at a young age to play with her, and she began her space work. Three years after its launch, Oleg Gazenko, a prominent Soviet scientist in the field, welcomed a mechanical dog to Krasavka.

"We have not read enough about the campaign to confirm Mika's death," he told a news conference in Moscow in 1998. It must be understood that Mika cannot be raised as a deceased person, and no one can bring him back without heavy emotions.

With a beating heart and a quick breath, Mika landed a rocket at Earth orbit 2,000 miles above the well-known Moscow streets. Extremely angry, crowded, frightened, and hungry, he gave his life for his country and did the dog suicide work.

This sad story goes down in history as the first creature to orbit the Earth. Decades later, Mika found new life in the popular culture of his death, the fire of his Soviet ship Sputnik 2, which crashed into Earth's atmosphere 60 years ago today.

As we know, Laika, or Space Dog, was a Russian writer who made unchanging history unknowingly as the first living person to orbit the earth 62 years ago. The story of Mika's life lasted so long that many facts about his space work remained unknown until 1998 when astronauts finally accepted the truth. Contrary to what the Soviet Union has been saying for years, there was growing pressure from media groups and activists that Mika would not survive seven days in space.

On November 3, 1957, the rocket left Kazakhstan in a secret location and carried the world's first artificial satellite just over a month after the Soviet Union launched its first artificial satellite into space. It took place for the second time on the day of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution and became a show of Communist awareness: six times the weight of the previous one, long and impressive, and a living rider. Six years later, two dogs named Dezik and Tsygan reached the top, and more than twenty followed.

The first living animal was a stray that was picked up on a Moscow street a week before the rocket launch. The safety of human space travel was supposed to be tested but it was a proven suicide task for the dog, as technology was not advanced enough for them to return. According to the Associated Press, the dog is promoted to the general atmosphere because of its size, small size, and calmness.

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union Laika, a stray dog that was picked up on the streets of Moscow, was sent out into space. A three-year-old woman named Mika had spent her life wandering the streets of Moscow where stray dogs were often welcomed into space because of their round metal and their ability to withstand extreme temperatures and hunger.

Laika was selected as a member of the crew of the Soviet Sputnik 2, a nomadic pilgrim from the streets of Moscow, founded on November 3, 1957, to orbit low. Laika was a stray dog that was removed from the streets of Moscow as another cheap and safe way to send someone to a dangerous and unknown place of obesity.

As part of her recovery and recovery plans, Mika died of heatstroke and congestion after being poisoned. At the time of Laikas' mission, little was known about the effects of space travel on living creatures, and orbit technology had not yet been developed, so its survival was unexpected.

Although scientists believe that humans will not survive the conditions of launch in space, engineers have seen animal flight as a necessary precursor to human machinery. Soviet scientists chose to get lost in Moscow because they believed that such animals could learn to cope with extreme colds and hunger.

Laika is the Russian name for several breeds of dogs such as husky, a popular name elsewhere in the world. Laika is also the name of a breed used in certain dogs of the Russian sled, although it has nothing to do with space dogs.

Laika, a mongrel dog, was introduced in November 1957 for the purpose of the Soviet Sputnik-2 mission. On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world with its first satellite launch. The boat had a small satellite, the little dog was the first animal to orbit the Earth.

According to Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs' Animals in Space, the Soviet Union introduced 71 In-Flight dogs between 1951 and 1966, killing 17 people. The United States and the USSR launched the missions in 1947.

The Soviet Union brought the first animal into space, a female named Mika, and the spaceship Sputnik 2. Space Dog uses the archives to tell the story of a clever, humble, and eventually lost dog: the first mammal to enter orbit and the first mammal to die. The Russian space program has continued to use animals in space as experimental cases, like Laikas, in the hope that they will survive.

Although the public first assured the puppy that he would emerge unscathed, Mika would be given scientific advancement, and there was no way to bring him back to Earth in time. For years, the line of commanders had been to be empowered if a satellite re-entered space.

The dog was originally called Kudrjawka ("little dog") but is known as Mika, a Russian name for several breeds of dogs such as bark. Mika and the other dogs carefully prepared for the long-awaited flight. While he and two other dogs were trained to fly in space, each was kept in a tiny hole and taught to eat healthy gels as food in space.

Before becoming a space dog, Mika was a Siberian husky-terrier mongrel living on the streets of Moscow. He was chosen more than any other dog trained for special missions because of his humble nature and character. The Soviet space program designed Mika's equipment in a space race in space exploration to monitoring the impact of space travel on living things.

Laika was the first living creature to be introduced into the space shuttle of the Soviet artificial satellite Sputnik 2. Laika was one of the many stray dogs that were included in the Soviet space program after being rescued on the road. He had a small dog (6 kg), with a good heart for 2 years.

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Radha Karki

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I am very curious ar learning new things, love to read books, paintings, art, and love singing too.

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