Starship Asterisk*

Laika the dog.

This is because she was a stray wandering around russia and they took her in and made her the first Dog to orbit the Earth. The moral is, that she went from being a nobody to being the most famous dog in the history of the world over night. Mans best friend paved the way for future space flight and taught us that the impossible was actually possible.


Paul.

bystander wrote:Which is the "odd one out"? And why?

α, β, γ, μ, ν, and τ.

In case the Greek symbols don't display properly, these are (lower case, or small) alpha, beta, gamma, mu, nu, and tau.

Given the sequence of the above letters, definitely "tau". You won't find this letter in the famous egg and lemon soup dish "abgolemono", which, as legend has it, provided sustenance on many a chilly night to Ancient Greek astronomers gazing at the heavens.