![]() The overarching story in Laika ultimately has a familiar children's movie bent: animals good, humans bad. "The first living creature to go to outer space. "You're famous now!" we hear scientists say over the radio as Laika's rocket soars. ![]() They load her up, brace for lift-off, and. She still sneaks some lab food to her pups on the streets, but surprisingly the scientists find Laika back in the cage the next morning. And when she sticks her head into the capsule, Laika seems to be struck by the grandiosity of it all. Yet, Laika can't do so without at least checking out the vehicle these scientists intend to hand her the keys to. So when the scientists put her in a lab cage and shut the lights off for the evening, this highly intelligent canine manages to escape and return to her family. You see, Laika had been picked up by a couple of government thugs in the name of science while trying to scrounge scraps for her three pups. Laika's premise stays historically accurate(ish) right up 'til the night before the titular dog's famous flight. And at its recent Fantastic Fest screening, the film proved to be wilder than just about any of its space history counterparts. Humanity's first attempt to send a living creature into space ended, well, not great.īut what if Laika had a more storybook (particularly a children's storybook) ending? Laika, Czech director Aurel Klimt's new stop-motion animated musical based on his previous puppet stage play chooses to imagine the most famous dog in space history with a bit more cunning and a lot more success. Within a couple of hours after launch, the thermal control system failed and the capsule overheated. Her capsule contained a temperature-control system and some dog food, but the Soviets must've always viewed this as a one-way, suicide mission-no one had yet solved the problem of how to safely return a spacecraft through Earth's atmosphere, after all. Picked off Moscow streets and sent into the lab then the skies, Laika's contribution to space history would be largely symbolic. And Soviet space leaders had just one month to get this effort together. ![]() She died miserably 60 years agoThat "something" would be a female dog named Laika. Further Reading The first creature in space was a dog.
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