Laika

Laika the space dog

By martijen002

  • laika

    laika
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783322/plotsummary Laika is the story of the first dog in space, launched by Russian scientists in 1957. We meet Laika as she becomes the first living creature to experience a launch into orbit and weightlessness. An intelligent creature, curious and proud she fulfills her duty taught to her by the scientists back on earth.

  • After Sputnik 2

    After Sputnik 2
    https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html
    With the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first manmade satellite, the Russians took an early lead in the space race. The next step was to send a human off the planet.

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin
    https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html
    The American plan to send a man into space by 1961 created a deadline that the Russian team worked hard to beat. The development of the Vostok spacecraft became paramount. Prior to Gagarin’s historic flight, the Soviets sent a prototype of his spaceship, along with a life-size dummy called Ivan Ivanovich and a dog called Zvezdochka. With these successes, the vessel was considered ready to take a living, breathing human into space.

  • After the mission

    After the mission
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    Upon his return to Earth, Gagarin was an international hero. He was cheered in Red Square by a crowd of hundreds of thousands. A national treasure, he traveled around the world to celebrate the historical Soviet achievement.

  • First American in space

    First American in space
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    After the Soviet achieve, the Americans started their own mission to space. Their selected spaceman or astronaut was Alan Sheppard.

  • First in space flight

    First in space flight
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    On April 12, 1961, at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time, the Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted off from the Soviets' launch site. Because no one was certain how weightlessness would affect a pilot, the spherical capsule had little in the way of onboard controls; the work was done either automatically or from the ground. If an emergency arose, Gagarin was supposed to receive an override code that would allow him to take manual control.

  • Alan Sheppard

    Alan Sheppard
    https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html
    Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the second person in space, launching on a suborbital flight in a Mercury capsule called Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961 — just three weeks after Gagarin's flight.

  • First American in orbit

    First American in orbit
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    lAfter the American launch to Space, they started to work on the first man to orbit in space.

  • John Glenn

    John Glenn
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    John Glenn was the first American in orbit, launching in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn orbited Earth three times during the flight, which took place 10 months after Gagarin’s mission.

  • First woman in space

    First woman in space
    https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html
    The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut who flew the Vostok 6 mission on June 16, 1963.