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by Marina LAPENKOVA Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) – “I asked her to forgive us and I even cried as I stroked her for the last time,” says 90-year-old Russian biologist Adilya Kotovskaya, recalling the day she bid farewell to her charge Laika. The former street dog was about to make history as the first living creature to orbit the earth, blasting off on a one-way journey. The Soviet Union sent Laika up […]
by Janet MCEVOY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Three and a half years before Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, a dog called Laika was in 1957 the first living creature to orbit the Earth. The stray from Moscow is one of many animals who preceded humans in the conquest of space; like most of the others, she did not survive. “These animals performed a service to their respective […]
by Pascale MOLLARD-CHENEBENOIT Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Sixty years after Laika the dog became the first living creature to go into orbit, animals are still being sent into space — though these days much smaller creatures are going up. Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the International Space Station programme, explains what we are still learning from animals in orbit. Why no more dogs, cats or monkeys? When those animals were sent […]
HAWAII, United States (Reuters) – Six scientists have crossed the halfway point of an eight-month stint in a dome perched atop a remote volcano in Hawaii. This is where they are living in isolation to simulate life for astronauts traveling to Mars, the University of Hawaii said. The study is designed to help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration better understand human behavior and performance during long space missions as the United States space agency […]
(Reuters) – The International Space Stations will welcome its first Chinese experiment, which is to be delivered aboard SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft. The Dragon is scheduled to be launched on Thursday from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch is to be done by SpaceX, a United States commercial aerospace manufacturer and transport services company. Scientists from Beijing Institute of Technology, a renowned university in China, are responsible for […]
