Laika
by Nick Abadzis · first published 2007
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Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her journey.Nick Abadzis blends fiction and fact in the intertwined stories of three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, once a political prisoner, now a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program, and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.
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This Chemical Brothers video parallels some of Laika's story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfSM-lv55I There's also an excellent comic about Laika: https://www.amazon.com/Laika-Nick-Abadzis/dp/1596431016
on “Soviet Space Dogs” ↗Another cultural reference, this one fairly recent. Author Nick Abadzis wrote a graphic novel about Laika's life and kept to the facts with a minimum of fictional embellishment [1]. He later got much feedback from readers who were upset at the sad fate of Laika at the end of his book. So much that he prepared…
on “Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero” ↗Author Nick Abadzis created a graphic novel of the story of Laika [1]. While I expect it includes some fictional elements, a lot of the story in the graphic novel was true, including Laika's unfortunate demise. He got so many comments about the sad ending that he…
on “Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)” ↗Author Nick Abadzis got a lot of responses about the factual, sad fate of Laika in his graphic novel. So much that he wrote several alternate (entirely fictional) endings to the story to make readers feel better. https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/category/comics/the-alternat...
on “Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)” ↗