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The dog astronaut Laika and the one-way flight of no return'
From a stray dog, Laika was chosen to become the first living creature in the 'suicide' flight, orbiting the Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.
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Dogs 'myths' in world history
Shortly after the successful launch of the Sputnik-1 satellite on October 4, 1967, Soviet scientists quickly promoted the launch of the Sputnik-2 spacecraft to bring the…