[ad_1] On a cold November morning in 1957, a small stray dog that had wandered the streets of Moscow became part of one of the defining moments of the early Space Age. Her name was Laika. She was placed inside Sputnik 2, a spacecraft built in haste after the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik…

[ad_1] Image Credit: AI Generated Imagine a time when the blue planet looked nothing like it does today. A time when the oceans were frozen over, the continents were locked in a thick sheet of ice, and the sun reflected off a world almost entirely white. This is not science fiction, but a real time…