History Photographed on Instagram: "On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the dog Laika, the first living creature to orbit Earth. ⁠ ⁠ Selected as a stray for the mission, Laika was a three-year-old part-Samoyed terrier.⁠ ⁠ Telemetry data indicated that Laika survived for several hours in orbit, ultimately succumbing to overheating due to a thermal control system failure.⁠ ⁠ Her flight provided critical data on the viability of life in space, directly contributing to

History Facts & Stories on Instagram: "Auschwitz was the largest system of concentration and extermination camps established during World War II, located in occupied Poland. It consisted of multiple sections, including Auschwitz I (the main camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (a vast extermination and labor facility), and Auschwitz III-Monowitz (an industrial labor site). More than one million people, primarily Jews, along with Poles, Romani people, Soviet prisoners of war, and others, were imprisoned,