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In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained that the dog Laika, whom the Soviet Union had publicly mourned as a heroic week-long orbiter in 1957, had actually died of heat and panic within about five hours of launch.

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In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston and quietly explained…