What was the name of the dog that in 1957 became the first mammal in space?
Animals in space a subsequent flight. The U.S. launched mice aboard spacecraft later that year; however, they failed to reach the altitude for true spaceflight. On 3 November 1957, the second-ever orbiting spacecraft carried the first animal into orbit, the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft (nicknamed 'Muttnik' in the West). Laika died during the flight, as was intended because the technology to return from orbit had not yet been developed. At least 10 other dogs were launched into orbit and numerous others on sub-orbital flights before the historic date of 12 April 1961, when Yuri Gagarin became the first
The Dog It Was That Died espionage. ("I have come back", he said to Beatrice, "I am not under the table. I have come back victorious. The dog it was that died.") First produced 1982 on BBC Radio 4. The cast was: The play was transferred to television in 1988 by Channel 4. The cast was: The Dog It Was That Died The Dog It Was That Died is a play by the British playwright Tom Stoppard. Written for BBC Radio in 1982, it concerns the dilemma faced by a spy over whom he actually works for. The play was also adapted for television by Stoppard,