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of these four, which is your favourite?
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Laika (top right)
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@laikaspacedog
now for the dog round!
of these four, which is your favourite?
Hachiko (top left)
Laika (top right)
Togo (bottom left)
Saint Guinefort (bottom right)
Laika's still up there. not her body, sure, but her soul is. i saw it through my telescope one night when i was looking for aliens. she was sniffing for table scraps under saturn's ring. she chases comets and bites down on satellites. i saw her napping by neptune, she was kicking her feet. passing through the oort cloud is like the stroke of a hand on her fur. eyes like marbles and four little paws like flames. she bobs through jupiter's moons like cold moscow streets. up there the stars are a great big field. and look, she's running so fast. god damn, look at her go.
patron saint of one-way trips and other journeys from which you can never return
this post is about her
poems about Laika (the soviet space dog)
i’ve been hunting for one in specific, and during my quest, i have seen that very many beautiful poems about this creature have been written. I wanted to compile them.
“first dog in space” by brennig davies / “They say that, from space, the Earth looks like a small, blue ball. I’ll throw it for you, Laika, if you’ll chase it, dart through the stratosphere like a comet, undeserving of its fate.”
“laika” by claire williamson / “for three hours she was weightless, pulse racing, but ate her dinner, alive to see an orbital sunrise.”
“laika” by adnana zeljkovic / “Paddling with her soft paws in inimical vacuum, (nothing to draw you to your bosom like Mother Earth’s gravitation) herself soft snowflake,”
“laika” by paul gerard reed / “The stars that shone have all gone out as man betrayed your trust, but your spirit is still in place somewhere, out there in space.”
“laika” by dave lewis / “But when you gave me that final kiss on the nose I suppose deep down inside I knew my destiny lay among the stars. Alone, in silence, I watched the world spinning round, one thousand miles below.“
“i remember laika” by jan oskar hansen / “The farewell can’t be delayed a boy has run to the outer field sits on a stone tries not to cry the struggle to accept the unavoidable.”
“muttnik” by tumblr user @fateology / “I don’t mind. I just miss you. I miss you like the space that lies between two breaths. Full to burning.”
“for the first dog in space” by lavinia greenlaw / “Laika, do not let yourself be fooled by the absolute stillness that comes only with not knowing how fast you are going. As you fall in orbit around the earth, remember your language. Listen to star dust. Trust your fear.”
“laika” by sarah doyle / “Brave little cosmonaut, caught and collared, Earth no more than a distant ball with which you cannot play.”
“laika” by adrian sobol / “If there is light, it’s pressing down on you. Something stirs inside it.”
“first the dog” by zbigniew herbert / “awkwardly we bump into stars / we see nothing we hear nothing / we beat with our fists on the dark ether / on all the wavelengths is a whining”
you are welcome to add more poems to this post if you have any in mind to recommend.
Laika: 1954-1957
Opportunity Rover: 2004-2019
fuck everything else happy birthday sputnik
Woof!
Laika
Laika: 1954-1957
Opportunity Rover: 2004-2019
“This mission–might just be the most important we’ve ever been on.”
Kirk’s bouncing on the transporter pad, ready to go.
“You bring her back, Captain, and I’ll set her to rights.” Scotty signs off as he beams them down to the surface.
Jim signals to his Crew. “Let’s go get her.”
Two hundred and forty four years in the making, an Away Crew of the Enterprise lands on Mars. A low priority mission, one bounced around by paper-pushers and bureaucracy until the admiralty just couldn’t say no anymore. And Jim wasn’t letting them. He had an opportunity, he was going to take it.
It takes them an hour to find her. Buried under Mars rock and dust, viewer cracked and frame misshapen. Jim reaches down and brushes some detritus off her front.
“Time to go home, Oppy.”
And so I float on, space’s only dog. Friend to the stars, pet of the sun.
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Mankind was not as kind to you as you were to mankind, Laika.
Laika.
May she run forever among the stars.
Facts about Laika the First Dog in Space
Loyalty that surpasses the stars. I have a lot of feelings about space and Laika Patreon
Laika should be reverred as a sacred entity honestly. As with all the animals we have sacrifieced for human acheivements.
Loyalty that surpasses the stars. I have a lot of feelings about space and Laika Patreon
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