Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero
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Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero
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#2A great achievement. I remember reading about Laika when I was a child. I was into astronauts (or cosmonauts) a lot when I was a child, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut for NASA. I read all books related to space travel and astronautics at the time.
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#3Random, but she's also the central character in Trentemøller's video for Moan:
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#4For those in the SF Bay area, the Chabot space center has a lot of old Soviet space hardware -- including a training capsule like the one in the picture at the top of the article.
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#6Random, but she's also the central character in Trentemøller's video for Moan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZPxvO1ftY
For cultural references, in my opinion you can't beat Hallstrom/Jonsson's "My Life as a Dog", whose main character ponders the fate of Laika while his own life undergoes traumatic changes.
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I know it's always tempting to generalize, but we have more to learn here if we cleave to the subject and not whatever we have handy in mind tagged with the keyword ‘Russia’.
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#8I did not need to be tearing up at work today :(
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#9Adding to the cultural references... Jonathan Coulton wrote a superb song about Laika called "Space Doggity".
The cage is very small, a tiny silver ball that makes you a hero the moment you step inside. The world is watching you, what you're about to do will live on forever, even though you'll be dead and gone, buckle up we're about to turn the engines on.
Hello from Sputnik 2, I am receiving you. Thanks for the the dog food, I'm somewhere above you now. Guess what, Maloshenkov? I took my collar off I'm holding my own leash, walking myself outside this door. I don't think I want to be a good dog anymore.
Now I'm floating free, and the moon's with me and it's bright enough to light the dark. And it's so high up here, and the stars so clear, Are they close enough? Will they hear me bark from here?
Hello to Sputnik 2, I think we're losing you, Your lifesigns are fading, I can't really say that we're surprised. It's a shame, there's always something that gets compromised
Now I'm floating free, and the moon's with me and it's bright enough to light the dark. And it's so high up here, and the stars so clear Are they close enough? Will they hear me bark from here?
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#10Laika is a character in The Manhattan Projects, a great comic from Image. It's written by Robert Kirkman, a co-creator of The Walking Dead.
https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-manhattan-projects