This is the story of a very special and very calm female who succeeded in passing numerous tests to determine her calm personality. After all of the tests were completed she became the first female to leave the Earth's atmosphere. She orbited the Earth four times and unfortunately her corpse orbited it another 2566 times. Yet she became a Soviet national hero and gave man a lot of data to prepare man for space travel. Laika grew up an orphan on the streets of Moscow and died alone in space.
—molnarmd