Dimitri Malashenkov was one of the Soviet scientists involved with the Sputnik 2 mission. He works for the Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow. In October 2002 he publicly revealed that Laika had died of overheating and stress just 5 - 7 hours into her flight, ending years of speculation about her true fate.
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