• In reviewing Animals in Space by Colin Burgess (14 April, p 49), Mick O’Hare wrote that “Laika… hit the world’s headlines in June 1957 when the Soviet Union launched her into space aboard Sputnik 2”. The news actually broke on 3 November 1957.
Letter: For the record
Published 30 May 2007
Issue no. 2606 published 2 June 2007
