Photographer
Martin Parr
AS WE celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (see “Apollo 11 only made it to the moon through diabolically hard practice“), it is easy to forget that the US’s bitter ideological rival, the Soviet Union, made the decisive first moves in the space race. And that wouldn’t have been possible without a uniquely Soviet team of heroes: the space dogs.
Laika, a stray from the streets of Moscow, was the most famous of their kind. On 3 November 1957, less than a month after the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik…
