Of course that's really sad :( but this was still a massive milestone in space travel, of course.

On 3 November 2015 at 22:50, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
"My Life As A Dog," a great Swedish film, talked about her. I looked at her this morning. I'll post Joe's tweet. We owe her that much. 

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:
And she died. :(

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> 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. :(

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