This canine was not happy with her seating assignment. Sputnik, a Shiba Inu, had more than enough legroom during her Alaskan Airlines flight last week as she chewed her way through the metal gate of ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 4, 1957 (UP) - Russia said today that its scientists are planning to use anthropod apes as the next passengers for space vehicles. The statement came as a result of the successful ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray husky-spitz mix from the streets of Moscow, and she was recruited by the Soviet ...

The Russians announced tonight they used improved new sources of power to fire aloft Sputnik II, the half-ton satellite rocketing a dog through the empty miles of space.

Gilded are the days of our youth. Oh, those magical Morganton memories! Morganton was Mayberry with sophistication. But not too much sophistication as you will see after reading this story. The image ...

HOLLYWOOD (UPI) --The motion picture, ''Unidentified Flying Objects," is a documentary account of the flying saucer history from the time the first such object was sighted in 1947 and the nation went ...

Laika, the dog that died in Sputnik, has caused a ripple of compassion the world over, even as compassion may be excited when any life is sacrificed for whatever reason. The sacrifice of Laika, ...