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Cosmodog takes its name from the first earthling in space, a small Russian dog known as Laika (pronounced "LYE-kuh"), which means "barker." This "Lai"brary was created to honor her and all her canine comrades.
The Cosmodog Collection
Images and descriptions of the items in our Laika-oriented collection.
The Great Laika Debate

Coming... someday. 		Vital Statistics

Coming... someday.
Collected Research
Articles

  • Soviet Scientists Describe Sputnik 2
  • New York Times: 3 November 1957
  • New York Times: 8 November 1957
  • Korolev's Triple Play: Sputniks 1, 2, & 3
  • Sputnik 2 from NSSDC Master Catalog
  • Sputnik History, from Soviet Web Space
  • Sputnik 2: Built in Less Than a Month?
  • First Space Dog Honored
  • Entries on Sputnik & Laika from Grolier
  • Excerpts from Petersen's Book of Man In Space
  • MISCELLANEOUS SNIPPETS
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    		Images
  • BAIKONUR
  • SPUTNIK
  • LAIKA
  • MISC.
    		• Links

  • Zarya
  • The New York Times: Sputnik
  • NASA: Starchild & Dogs in Space
  • Soviet Web Space
  • Space History Notes
  • Spoutnik à 40 ans
  • Virtual Space Museum
  • Encyclopedia Astronautica
  • Animal Astronauts
  • Index of Famous Dogs
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    Multimedia
  • laika.ram
         An amusing prank (nytimes.com)
  • sputnik.au: 110k / sputnik.rm
         Sputnik's "beep" signal (nytimes.com)
  • earlyspace-grolier.mov: 4.9 MB
         Early space tech (Grolier)
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