Laika was a friendly stray found in Moscow and believed to be just three years old when she was sent on a doomed one-way ...

Laika was a Russian dog who was sent on a one-way trip into space and has become a symbol for the use of animals in ...

Laika, the Russian mixed breed, was one of the first animals to be sent into space in 1957, but the little dog was destined ...

Laika was a three-year-old mixed terrier who was taken from the streets of Russia and thrust into a rocket in the name of ...

Suni Williams returned to Earth on March 18 along with NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore after spending nine months in space.

The small dog sculpture, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is made from elephant ivory. It is 7.2 inches (18.2 centimeters) long from nose to toes and shows the very good boy ...

Laika, a small mixed breed, was the first animal to orbit the Earth and was sent into space by the Soviet Union, but her life was doomed as she was never expected to survive the mission ...