Re: Damned right!
Didn't know that about the dog, and while it's not deliberate, I think more Americans have died in the space effort than Russians.
Of course, we had a big crew on the Challenger, and so on, but they've logged a lot of time in space. (I still think it should have crossed someone's mind that an over-pressurized pure oxygen atmosphere was a dangerous place into which to send humans with no rapid egress.)
Arf