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Where Is Laika’s Sputnik 2 Now?

Laika's spacecraft doesn't exist anymore. On the 14th of April, 1958, Sputnik 2 burned up over the Atlantic with her body still inside, five months after she died.
For 45 years, the official story of how she died wasn't true. We follow Sputnik 2 from a freezing launch pad in Kazakhstan to a secret report to the Central Committee, a CIA memo titled "Sputnik II, With or Without Dog?", and a cargo ship that reported the reentry as an unidentified object. Then we find the dogs who flew after her and came home, and where you can still see them today.

Source: ALPHA TECH
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