On November 3, 1957, the dog Laika was sent into space on a journey of no return.
Laika was a stray dog and she was the first living being in an Earth orbit as well. Today, she is remembered on the list of the fallen Soviet comonauts in the Star City, at the Northeast of Moscow. We now know that she died few hours after the launch due to a failure of the capsule's thermal insulator.
Although I already knew about Laika and her travel to the space, I did not know the whole sad story of this little dog. I recently learned about what happened and it impressed me very much. In this post, I share a poem of that time and a poem that I wrote to her.
