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Laika actually did not travel on an American Space Shuttle, but rather on a Russian satellite called Sputnik 2.

Sputnik 2 (with Laika in it) was launched on November 3, 1957 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia on top of an R-7 rocket.

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