Laika was not intended to return alive, and she died shortly after the launch due to overheating and stress. Her body ...

Actor Park Jin-joo successfully completed the first performance of the musical "Laika." ...

Both made it back alive. Then, in 1957, they put a dog named Laika on the Sputnik 2 flight. Laika had been a stray, which they figured would make her strong enough to survive the harsh conditions.

Perhaps the most famous space animal, Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, became the first living being to orbit Earth. She was launched aboard the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 in 1957. Unfortunately, Laika ...

Suni and Butch managed to fill in time, a long way from a dog walk in the bush. Here they are, after a space walk — a ...

“Not sure who rescued who, but we got each other!," Tartick said of his new dog, which is a golden retriever mix Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...