When people think about the first living creature to travel into space, most imagine a human astronaut like Yuri Gagarin or ...

A space physiologist who worked with NASA once explained to me why the Americans never used dogs in their space program. “We told the public that we were using monkeys because they were closer to ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, has been shrouded in legend, misinformation, and propaganda since she first reached Earth’s orbit in 1957. This article digs into what really happened to ...