Download or read book Laika 1st Dog in Space written by Joeming Dunn and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have been an influential part of science, technology, and travel throughout time. Laika: The 1st Dog in Space introduces readers to the historical climate of the 1920s through 1950s, background on Laika, a chronology of Laika's trip into space, and how that mission influenced history. Colorful graphic art, diagrams of rockets, history on the Space Race, fast facts, and a glossary will bring the historic mission to a younger audience. A great supplement to your history graphic novel collection.
Download or read book Laika written by Joeming Dunn and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, explores human interest in space travel throughout history and steps taken to train and send the first dog into space.
Download or read book Laika 1st Dog in Space written by Joeming Dunn and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have been an influential part of science, technology, and travel throughout time. Laika: The 1st Dog in Space introduces readers to the historical climate of the 1920s through 1950s, background on Laika, a chronology of Laika's trip into space, and how that mission influenced history. Colorful graphic art, diagrams of rockets, history on the Space Race, fast facts, and a glossary will bring the historic mission to a younger audience. A great supplement to your history graphic novel collection.
Download or read book Laika written by Ece Burucu and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika is the first living being to reach Earth's orbit. In other words: the first living being that died outside Earth ... maybe you too would like to know the story of the dog that went into space.
Download or read book Laika s Window written by Kurt Caswell and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Laika written by Nick Abadzis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her journey. Nick Abadzis masterfully 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. This intense triangle is rendered with the pitch-perfect emotionality of classics like Because of Winn Dixie, Shiloh, and Old Yeller. Abadzis gives life to a pivotal moment in modern history, casting light on the hidden moments of deep humanity behind history. Laika's story will speak straight to your heart. Laika is the winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens and an Eisner Award nominee for Best Reality-Based Work.
Download or read book Laika s Window written by Kurt Caswell and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of Laika--the Soviet space dog, the Cold War, and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union
Download or read book Laika written by Nick Abadzis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika is an abandoned puppy destined to be a space traveler aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Download or read book Space Dogs written by Justin Ball and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Laika written by Zahid Ameer and published by Zahid Ameer. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating story of "Laika: World's First Canine Astronaut" in this insightful eBook. Delve into the historic mission that propelled Laika, a small stray dog from Moscow, into the annals of space exploration. Uncover the triumphs and challenges of her journey aboard Sputnik 2, from her humble beginnings to her courageous ascent into the cosmos. Explore the legacy of Laika's pioneering mission and its lasting impact on our understanding of space exploration and the ethical considerations surrounding it. Perfect for space enthusiasts, history buffs, and animal lovers alike, this eBook offers a fascinating glimpse into one of the most iconic moments in the history of space exploration.
Download or read book Laika written by Owen Davey and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika, a stray dog found in Moscow, becomes the first animal to be launched into space.
Download or read book Animals in Space written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.
Download or read book Beastly Natures written by Dorothee Brantz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacket.
Download or read book Laika the Astronaut written by Owen Davey and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laika is a homeless stray living on the streets of Moscow when she is picked by the space programme to be the first ever animal launched into orbit However, her rocket disappears and everyone thinks Laika is lost forever - no one knows what happened to her. In Owen Davey's imaginative story you discover that Laika was rescued by a loving new owner and found her true home on a planet far, far away.
Download or read book Starman written by Piers Bizony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Film stars, politicians and pop stars from Europe to Japan, India to the United States vied with each other to shake his hand. Despite this immense fame, almost nothing is known about Gagarin or the exceptional people behind his dramatic space flight. Starman tells for the first time Gagarin's personal odyssey from peasant to international icon, his subsequent decline as his personal life began to disintegrate under the pressures of fame, and his final disillusionment with the Russian state. President Kennedy's quest to put an American on the Moon was a direct reaction to Gagarin's achievement--yet before that successful moonshot occurred, Gagarin himself was dead, aged just thirty-four, killed in a mysterious air crash. Publicly the Soviet hierarchy mourned; privately their sighs of relief were almost audible, and the KGB report into his death remains secret. Entwined with Gagarin's history is that of the breathtaking and highly secretive Russian space program - its technological daring, its triumphs and disasters. In a gripping account, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony reveal the astonishing world behind the scenes of the first great space spectacular, and how Gagarin's flight came frighteningly close to destruction.
Download or read book Soviet Space Dogs written by Olesya Turkina and published by Fuel Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Curious Robot on Mars written by James Duffett-Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off into space—186 million miles to be precise—a fearless robot rover travels all by his lonesome. He is on a crucial mission from Earth, eagerly seeking to answer the much-anticipated question: Does life exist on Mars? But there is nothing to be seen on this planet except miles of rocks. He loses support from mission control and finds himself alone and cut off from civilization. But the curious little robot is resilient! After noticing a flash of light shining brilliantly through the crack of a rock, he instantly realizes his mission is far from over. He slowly inches towards the edge, but then suddenly falls perilously into the darkness! What will he discover? Bethany Straker's vibrant illustrations accompany James Duffett-Smith's suspenseful tale of discovery and hope. A Curious Robot on Mars! will motivate any and all readers to strive for one's ambitions—and most importantly, to always be curious!
