part-terrier mongrel, picked up on the streets of Moscow—began providing answers, when the Soviet Union launched her into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. Less than a month earlier, when the Soviets ...

Despite the small dog's unique status as one of the first animals in space, it offered little comfort as she rocketed away from earth, the solitary passenger aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft.

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ...