{"id":6642,"date":"2026-08-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:35:35","slug":"korabl-sputnik-2-was-launched-in-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6642","title":{"rendered":"Korabl-Sputnik 2 Was Launched in 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10637\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10637\" class=\"wp-image-10637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Strelka-Belka.jpg\" alt=\"Strelka and Belka\" width=\"191\" height=\"157\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strelka and Belka<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Korabl-Sputnik 2<\/i> was launched in 1960.<\/strong> The Soviet spacecraft carried two dogs (Strelka and Belka), forty\u00a0mice, two\u00a0rats, and some plants into orbit. The spacecraft was recovered, and all the animals survived the four-orbit mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korabl-Sputnik 2 was launched in 1960. The Soviet spacecraft carried two dogs (Strelka and Belka), forty\u00a0mice, two\u00a0rats, and some plants into orbit. The spacecraft was recovered, and all the animals survived the four-orbit mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4705,5795,1221,1218,1219,1220],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4705","tag-august-19","tag-belka","tag-korabl-sputnik-2","tag-soviet","tag-strelka","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/29640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}