Facebook: On this day in 1957, Russian "spacedog" Laika became the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. She died on her fourth day in space, and some, including a scientist involved, regretted allowing her to die. In 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to her in Moscow.
Jeff Elder Digital communications manager Wikimedia Foundation 704-650-4130 @jeffelder <https://twitter.com/JeffElder> @wikipedia <https://twitter.com/wikipedia> The Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > • On this day in 1957, Russian "spacedog" Laika became the first living > creature from Earth to enter orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika > > It's a featured article, too. But the pic isn't PD. :( > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: > JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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