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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

First Dog in Space

Sunday May 15, 2005
At the very beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik 2 with Laika the dog on board. Laika became the very first living creature to enter orbit.

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February 18, 2008 at 2:16 pm
(1) NIcole says:

Your page is very poor and displays very little info and guite frankly a child could have written it!!!!

February 19, 2008 at 10:25 am
(2) history1900s says:

I think you might be referring to only my blog post. Just click on “Laika the Dog” in the post to get to the full article about this amazing dog.

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