Imaginary interview with Laika the first dog to go to space

Imaginary Interview with Laika ( ? - 1957 )

Dear Laika, when wandering through the streets of Moscow, did you ever imagine that you would be famous for being the first animal astronaut of history?

-Woof, woof woof

(The truth is that I looked up at the sky and hope that someone would give me something to eat. I never imagined that I would be flying in Sputnik 2.)

Did your life change when you entered the Soviet Program?

-Woof, woof woof woof

(It changed completely. I ate everyday and various times, and in exchange I had to train very hard. They put me in a kind of ship, very very small, and I experienced vibrations, noise and accelerations.)

And how was the experience of the orbital flight?

-Woof,woof,woof woof

(At first I was very scared, my heart beating a mile a minute. Afterwards I loved being without gravity. I imagined myself quite like this:

I looked down and wanted to play with the blue ball that I saw, what you call Earth. But as travelling makes me hungry, I ate.)

What do you think of the circumstances of your death not being clarified until 2002?

-Woof,woof,woof woof

(You know, It was all politics, for those were the times of the Cold War. If my bosses had communicated that I had died after 7 hours they would have lost points in the space race. What's more, To admit that they could not grant my trip back to Earth would have given them the bad image of being cruel.)

Stay tuned for interviews with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton

-The end.