books.google.ca - Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Animals_in_Space.html?id=xSdHVIpsrKkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAnimals in Space
