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However, it wasn’t the plan to use it as the first orbiter, as [Scott Manley] explains in a recent video that you can see below. The original design would become Sputnik 3, which, as [Scott ...
Soviet rocket scientists had wanted to send dogs into space to learn more about what launch ... with a video camera, for a dog. The ship weighed 1,120 pounds, six times as heavy as Sputnik ...
It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...