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Ebook About Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated. Laika’s Window positions Laika as a long overdue hero for leading the way to human space exploration.Kurt Caswell examines Laika’s life and death and the speculation surrounding both. Profiling the scientists behind Sputnik II, he studies the political climate driven by the Cold War and the Space Race that expedited the satellite’s development. Through this intimate portrait of Laika, we begin to understand what the dog experienced in the days and hours before the launch, what she likely experienced during her last moments, and what her flight means to history and to humanity. While a few of the other space dog flights rival Laika’s in endurance and technological advancements, Caswell argues that Laika’s flight serves as a tipping point in space exploration “beyond which the dream of exploring nearby and distant planets opened into a kind of fever from which humanity has never recovered.”Examining the depth of human empathy—what we are willing to risk and sacrifice in the name of scientific achievement and our exploration of the cosmos, and how politics and marketing can influence it—Laika’s Windowis also about our search to overcome loneliness and the role animals play in our drive to look far beyond the earth for answers.Book Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog Review :
I bought two versions of this book--one for Kindle and the other in hardback. I wanted to be able to read the book at leisure due to the compelling subject of little space dog Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth and of her betrayal by the humans who sent her out into space with no means of returning and to ultimately die.I remember hearing about Laika as a very small child in the 1960s. I was excited to hear about the cosmonaut doggie, and she was a heroine to me. I have always loved dogs, and our family had several cherished dogs who were as much siblings as pets. It was not until I was in my teens that I was mortified to hear about her real fate: that she would die in flight, far from any comforting human arms, all alone in space. That harrowing knowledge has lingered in the back of my mind over the decades, so when Caswell's book came out, I was determined to buy it to learn more about Laika's life and fate.The book is impressive in its research. There are sources and footnotes aplenty. The book's opening chapter, though, was too maudlin and poetic for me in describing a dog who died in terror from heat stroke, with the florid prose, allusion to the stars and the universe, and how Laika, as her decayed corpse burned in the destruction of the spacecraft, was reduced to her atomic constituents which fell to earth. This was not the place nor the subject matter for the writer to demonstrate his ability to wordsmith.The author presents a detailed history of how animals were used as test subjects since the days of early flight in balloons. There were also numerous other animals harmed and sacrificed in the early days of space exploration: other dogs, monkeys and even a cat.I do not agree at all about the author's contention that space dogs are not as much test subjects as highly-trained canine astronauts. Human astronauts in the early days of space travel fully understood the dangers of space flight. One only need to read about cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and how he bravely faced death in one of the Soyuz program's failed missions. Dogs are trained in a manner to be of use to humans. The dogs have no idea of the dangers they will face (Caswell uses the example of military dogs), only that they blindly follow the commands of their handlers and trainers due to their childlike love and trust. (Military and working dogs often are trained skills and tasks using toys and play as rewards.) Neuroscientist Dr. Greg Bern's discusses his research that established how dogs are very childlike in the way their brains function. (Berns used his own family dog as a research subject--the dogs were trained to sit perfectly still to allow their brains to be MRI scanned--and no dogs were forced to participate if they did not want to. Also, no dogs were harmed or killed.)Laika, taken from the streets as a stray, came to trust her new humans, and those humans betrayed that trust by sending her out into space to die. There is a discussion in the book on the misgivings of sending Laika on a one-way trip, and even of people weeping, but in the end, Laika was strapped into her capsule and sent into space and she died in agony. Unlike human astronauts, Laika did not have a choice about being put in harm's way and giving her life for science.This book is about little Laika, but also the early days of the Space Race and the rush to put a human on the moon, politics and human relations, but also about the ethics of using animal lives for human ends. (Carl Sagan's final illness is discussed in light of this.) As much as I heartily disagree with the author on issues of animal rights and their roles in human society, I found the book fascinating, well-researched and informative.On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing in 1969--a towering milestone in human history--it is important to recognize that human achievement came at the price of other creatures' lives--creatures who had no voice in the sacrifices they would be forced to make. As an aerospace historian, I am naturally concerned with all aspects of the story of human space flight. However, I am also a hugely fond of dogs and have over the past 30 years found both irreplaceable companionship and loving understanding in the 8 or so Husky dogs I have shared my life with. Thus it was, that I was first drawn to the history of Russia's space dog researches many years ago as a young undergrad. Aside from the fascinating scientific and technological details of those pioneering Soviet programs to reach space, I was immediately and immensely moved by the story of Laika's deliberate sacrifice to advance our understandings of what it requires to sustain human life in the depths of extraterrestrial space.When I became aware of Kurt Caswell’s 2018 book, ‘Laika’s Window’, I secured a copy for my space reference library and read it without delay. As someone who is extremely well-versed in just about all aspects of Laika and her Sputnik II flight on 3 Nov 1957 (not to mention the various programs of early animal space research carried out by other nations in the 50s and 60s), I began reading the book a bit impatiently, since much of what was covered in the first section was already well known to me.As I began the subsequent chapters, there were few technical surprises, given the extent of my prior knowledge of Laika’s plight and the technical details of her flight, since this has already been exhaustively covered in other books and references on the subject. But what did pleasantly impress me was the great-hearted empathy that emerged in Caswell’s insights and speculations on both humanity and our dear canine companions who accompany us through our muddling efforts to make sense of the human life experience.Although many canine behaviorists will scoff at occasional anthropomorphic efforts to ascribe such human emotions as ‘love’ and objectified regard to animals, reminding us that such responses to our ministrations are the natural product of a partnership that goes back roughly 20,000 or so years, I personally am of the belief that whatever it is that prompts our dogs to attend to us so faithfully and selflessly, it is an absolute essential of a meaningful and well-lived life.On a personal level, as a life-long sentimentalist (despite my scientific bent), I have always felt that Laika’s story is one the most tragic, sorrowful and gut-wrenching I have ever come across and even now whenever I think of her sacrificial ordeal as a ‘political’ test subject intended solely to score propaganda points it never fails to bring a tear to my eye.Although I am undecided personally (as regards our aspirations to leave Earth in search of other possibilities) about the wisdom of ‘infecting’ other worlds with our catastrophic admixture of the good, the bad and the ugly that lies within our basic core matrix, and although I think humankind (as an obviously imperfect, failed organism) would be better off becoming extinct, it is almost certain that we shall eventually reach Mars. If and when that time comes, I would sincerely hope that the very first non-human lifeforms to accompany us on that epic journey will be the dogs that have proven to be such a God-send to humanity for so many thousands of years on our beautiful (but sadly mistreated) Earth.In closing, I think Caswell has done an excellent job painting this poignant portrait of poor little Laika and her pioneering first steps (by virtue either of ‘love’, as he postulates, or simple conditioning) towards the unknown depths of space. This book, which has been so carefully researched, definitely belongs on then bookshelf of all who take the subject of the possibilities of spaceflight seriously. It is written skillfully, as well. And it injects a necessary note of humaneness into the entire process. 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