On November 3, 1957, Laika became the first Earth-born creature to travel to space. Although she died a few hours after launch, subsequent canine travellers returned from their out-of-this-world missions alive.
They became national heroes in the Soviet Union, with their images reproduced on everything from cigarette packets and sweet-tins and stamps to postcards. Here's a look at canine space explorers in Soviet pop culture.
(via Everlasting Blort)
1 comment(s):
It's nice that you picked an image from a different source to illustrate the article, but that's a Romanian stamp, so it's not really Soviet pop culture...
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