Archives mondiales de la mémoire animale

Une archive d’intérêt public qui préserve sur le long terme des histoires d’animaux, des registres mémoriels, des dossiers issus de sources publiques et des mémoires de coexistence entre humains et animaux.

Histoires d’animaux

Laika: the first dog to orbit Earth

1957-11-03 Baikonur launch site / low Earth orbit
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Laika flew aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, becoming the first animal to orbit Earth, but the mission had no recovery plan and she died within hours.

Baikonur launch site / low Earth orbit

Historical photograph of Laika, Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.
Historical photograph of Laika, Wikimedia Commons image saved locally.

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Laika was selected from Moscow stray dogs and launched aboard Sputnik 2 during the early space race.

Because the mission had no recovery plan and she died within hours, the archive records both the milestone and the ethical cost.

Laika is archived so that a famous scientific milestone remains tied to the individual animal who was sacrificed.

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