Book Description
Tells the true stories of Laika, Belka, Strelka, and the other space dogs who were sent on experimental space flight explorations by the Soviet Union between 1951 and 1956.
Author : Olesya Turkina
Publisher : Fuel Pub
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780956896285
Tells the true stories of Laika, Belka, Strelka, and the other space dogs who were sent on experimental space flight explorations by the Soviet Union between 1951 and 1956.
Author : Mini Grey
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553510606
Meet Space Dog, Astrocat, and Mousetronaut in this hilarious adventure about teamwork and unexpected friendship from the award-winning creator of Traction Man. Space Dog is zooming through Cake Space on the SS Kennel when he receives the first of many distress calls from the vast Spooniverse. Can he rescue the Cereal People, plug up the Ketchup Volcanoes, and defeat the Cheese Ants? All on his own? He might need some help. But Space Dogs, Astrocats, and Mousetronauts have always been sworn enemies! Can they put aside their differences to save the Spooniverse? This hilarious offering from the award-winning Mini Grey is a non-stop adventure, a celebration of imaginative play, and a triumphant story in which sworn enemies become . . . sworn friends!
Author : Jeni Wittrock
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1479554634
"Simple text and full-color illustrations describe the true story of Laika, the first dog in outer space"--
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781610676489
Ludwig is a small dog who lives in a book with his friends. Everything in their world is made of paper. Ludwig loves to read about different galaxies and planets, but how can he ever leave his book world to see the real universe? He tries everything he can think of to fly away and go exploring, but nothing works. And then something from another dimension crashes onto Ludwig's page . . . Put on your 3-D glasses and watch the world of Ludwig and his friends - both close to home and far away - come alive.
Author : Justin Ball
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307491161
It all begins with Laika, the first dog in space. Launched into orbit by the Soviet Union, Laika’s craft is accidentally sucked through a wormhole and onto the Planet Gersbach, inhabited by highly intelligent but very tiny people. When a mysterious disturbance of gravity (D.O.G.) threatens to destroy Gersbach, Commanders Belka and Strelka are just the men to seek and destroy the source of D.O.G. Their vehicle: A highly sophisticated craft that looks exactly like a terrier. Blending in with the locals on earth should be no problem. And with the help of the Buckleys, a lovable Earth family with problems of their own, the mission to save their planet may still prevail.
Author : Nancy Coffelt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1996-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152010041
Dogs in space visit each of the planets in the solar system, finding no one at home anywhere, and return to Earth.
Author : Dian Curtis Regan
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1590789555
Niko may live on boring old Earth with his family, but he's always finding a new adventure. Using the spaceship that he built from a box in his backyard and a little imagination, he flies off into space with his robot, Radar, and his dog, Tag. The only one NOT invited is his sister Posh who keeps trying to insert herself into Niko's story. In this first mission, Niko and crew (and maybe also pesky Posh) fly to the moon in search of a lost cat. Illustrated in comic–book style and featuring easy–to–read text packed with humor, Space Boy and His Dog is Niko's first adventure, with two more books planned in the series.
Author : Kurt Caswell
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1595348638
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated. Laika’s Window positions Laika as a long overdue hero for leading the way to human space exploration. Kurt Caswell examines Laika’s life and death and the speculation surrounding both. Profiling the scientists behind Sputnik II, he studies the political climate driven by the Cold War and the Space Race that expedited the satellite’s development. Through this intimate portrait of Laika, we begin to understand what the dog experienced in the days and hours before the launch, what she likely experienced during her last moments, and what her flight means to history and to humanity. While a few of the other space dog flights rival Laika’s in endurance and technological advancements, Caswell argues that Laika’s flight serves as a tipping point in space exploration “beyond which the dream of exploring nearby and distant planets opened into a kind of fever from which humanity has never recovered.” Examining the depth of human empathy—what we are willing to risk and sacrifice in the name of scientific achievement and our exploration of the cosmos, and how politics and marketing can influence it—Laika’s Windowis also about our search to overcome loneliness and the role animals play in our drive to look far beyond the earth for answers.
Author : Martin Parr
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786274113
This fascinating book tells the story of the soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog memorabilia. In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was for both a matter of pride and propaganda. But before man ventured into the cosmos, his four-legged friends would pave the way for space exploration. The first canine cosmonaut was Laika, meaning 'barker'. The little stray could never have anticipated that she would one day float 200 miles above the Moscow streets. She would be canonized as a proletarian hero, appearing on stamps, postcards and souvenirs. Her successors were Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to successfully return safely to Earth, and with them, the cult of the space dog was born. In a regime that eschewed celebrating individual achievement, the space dogs became Soviet superstars, with a vast array of merchandise, books and films in their honor. A must for read for fans of Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina and Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989 by Moscow Design Museum..
Author : Chris Dubbs
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0595267351
Back when scientists knew nothing about space travel, back when rockets were new, a group of Russian cosmonauts rode rockets to the edge of space and into earth orbit. These pioneer space travelers were dogs, space dogs of the Soviet space program.For 15 years, space dogs occupied the world stage, blazing trails as the first astronauts.Their flights taught scientists how living beings reacted to rocket travel and tested the equipment that would be used for human space flight. The age of the space dog extended from the first launch in 1951 until the final, record-breaking dog flight in 1966. Some dogs won world-wide fame. Most of them, however, worked-and died-in obscurity. They were all pioneers of space travel. And no one has ever told their story. Until now.Space Dogs dramatizes the training of the dogs, the harrowing early flights, the tragic accidents, the fame that came to the program after the launch of Laika in Sputnik 2, and the final flights leading up to the first manned flight.Space Dogs includes never-before-published photos from the archives of Novosti, the Russian News Agency.