Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet satellite appeared to be tumbling end over end. This caused renewed speculation about the fate of Laika, the little Russian dog harnessed inside. Soviet scientists indicated several days ago that eccentric movements of the satellite might in time cost the dog's life...
Pupnick--the dog-bearing satellite--will be visible to early risers Thursday morning at about 5:09, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, announced last night. Whipple added that Boston, where the rocket will be directly overhead, will be "one of the best places" from which to view the Russians' latest satellite...
...difference in weight, he explained, was probably due to the shape and size of the rocket, compared to a sphere with a 23-inch diameter. He added that the weight of the instruments and the dog in the forward section of the cylinder might also total more than the mass of the first satellite...
Whipple added that the second rocket, although in a more elliptic orbit than the first, would probably take "a comparable period of time" to be affected by the atmosphere drag which is slowly destroying Sputnik I's rocket. Meanwhile, he said, "Curly," the first dog in space, is comparatively safe...
...Allen Hynek, also an associate director at the observatory, commented that it "seems feasible" not only to keep the dog alive and as happy as dogs normally are, but also to retrieve it safely. He pointed out that the United States had successfully regained high-speed objects jettisoned at great altitudes. The dog is believed to be hermetically sealed into a capsule, similar to the containers used for instruments in U.S. test rockets...