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Today in Aviation History: Sputnik 1, The World's First Artificial Satellite, is Launched Into Orbit
Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957, at 1928 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan using the R-7 ...
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She Was The First Dog Launched Into Space, With Only One Meal And A Seven-Day Oxygen Supply
On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into space. She rode aboard the Sputnik 2 […] ...
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Sputnik, space and me
Sputnik was hurled skywards on the experimental R-7 rocket, powered by liquid oxygen mixed with kerosene, from launch facilities that are still functional and no less remote today in Tyuratam ...