LAIKA · The First Ever Dog In Space

The first ever dog in space

Paired with SpaceX

Baikonur Cosmodrome

3 November 1957

Sputnik 2 lifts off carrying a passenger. No heat shield. No way down.

Altitude

One orbit, every 103 minutes

A small dog from a Moscow street is now the fastest living thing that has ever existed.

Above everything

The first of us to leave

Before Gagarin. Before Armstrong. Before any of it. There was Laika.

Laika photographed in her flight harness in 1957 — Moscow, 1957.

01 / A stray from Moscow

Nobody knew her name. A stray off the Moscow streets, three years old and five kilograms of nothing. They sent her first.

The engineers chose strays on purpose. They believed a dog that had already survived a Moscow winter with no food and no shelter could survive anything. They called her Kudryavka, Little Curly, then Zhuchka, then Limonchik. The world settled on Laika, which simply means barker.

She was trained in cages that got smaller every week, fed a gel that would keep in zero gravity, and taught to sit still while the world shook around her.

Breed: Mongrel
Age: 3 Years
Flight weight: 5 KG
Found: Moscow
Laika means: Barker

For a few hours

she was the only living thing

above the entire world.

02 / She never came home

Five to seven hours.

The cabin overheated on the fourth orbit. For forty five years the official story said otherwise. The truth came in 2002.

Laika inside the Sputnik 2 capsule, the last photograph taken of her — The last photograph ever taken of her, inside Sputnik 2.

Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. The more time passes, the more I am sorry about it. We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.
Oleg Gazenko, Sputnik 2 scientist, 1998

Launch from Baikonur: 3 Nov 1957
Lost to the heat: 4th orbit
Orbits completed: 2,570
Sputnik 2 burns on return: 14 Apr 1958

Her name goes back up.

She went first and she went alone. Sixty nine years later we are putting her back in orbit. This time she stays up.

03 / How to buy

Three steps to orbit.

$LAIKA lives on Robinhood Chain, paired with SpaceX.

1
Get a wallet

Install a browser wallet and add Robinhood Chain to it. The network uses ETH for gas.

Network
Robinhood Chain

Chain ID
4663

Gas token
ETH
2
Fund it

Bridge ETH across to Robinhood Chain. Leave a little spare for gas, a few cents is plenty.

You need
ETH

Bridge time
Minutes

Keep back
Gas money
3
Swap and hold

Paste the contract address below, swap your ETH for $LAIKA, confirm in your wallet. Then let her fly.

Ticker
$LAIKA

Pair
SpaceX

Slippage
Start low

Contract address

Always check the address against the links in the footer before you swap.

Buy $LAIKA