Łajka - the dog which was shot on orbit circumterrestrial. She was shot in Soviet satellite which name was "Sputnik 2" 3-rd November 1957. The dog weigh about 6 kg and grew up on streets of Moscow. These two facts (light weight and resistance on hard conditions) caused that she was selected as a passenger for the space ship. Łajka was first on orbit circumterrestrial but she wasn't first on the space, because ZSRR and USA had experimented with send animals on the space.
Course of the flight.
At first, in propagandist aims, it was told the dog survived few days. Truth was proclaim at last in 2002. Łajka died after about 7 hours. Cause of that was overheating and stress. A bearing rocket didn't leave the main rocket what caused a temperature increment inside a capsule to up 40 degrees Celsius. From the beginning didn't plan landing the satellite on the Earth - Łajka will have after 10 days poisoned food. Oxygen was also meant on ten days. Russians proclaimed a ten-days flight plan some time after shot the satellite that is probably after death the dog. It possible that it was in propagandist aim.
Łajka on April 2008 was awarded own 2 meters high statue showing a space rocket, coming to human's hand, on which is standing Łajka. The statue is near scrutinizing institute of military medicine of Ministry Defence of Russia.
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