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Sputnik 2 Carries Laika to the Stars

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CANINE
Laika was a stray picked from the streets of Moscow; Soviet engineers favored street dogs, believing they were especially tough and adaptable to hardship.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ORBIT
Sputnik 2 completed roughly 2,570 orbits of Earth before re-entering the atmosphere in April 1958, more than five months after launch.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SATELLITE
Sputnik 2 was nearly six times heavier than Sputnik 1, launched just weeks earlier in October 1957, a dramatic leap in size and ambition.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Sputnik 2 Laika word search, play it online right now. On November 3, 1957, a stray Moscow dog became the first living creature to orbit Earth.

About Sputnik 2 Carries Laika to the Stars

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying a stray dog named Laika into Earth's orbit, the first living creature to travel beyond the atmosphere. Engineers built a padded capsule around her, monitoring her heartbeat and breathing as the rocket climbed through layers of sky and silence into the cosmos above. That single mission rewrote what humanity believed was possible, transforming the dream of space travel from speculation into something living, breathing, and real.

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