Laika
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laika-162-8025355
title:
Laika
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Laika was a Soviet space dog who was one of the first animals in space and the first to orbit the Earth. A stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, she flew aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. As the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died of overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit. Little was known about the effects of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's m
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Soviet dog, first animal to orbit Earth (1957)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
date created:
2002-01-25T16:51:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T20:36:31Z
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