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a lot of the overreaction to sputnik 2 was cynical american spin doctoring as cope for how badly we'd been beaten. it was a valuable scientific experiment that killed a grand total of 1 dog, at a time when scientific experiments which killed hundreds of dogs were commonplace. if we'd had a launcher capable of putting a dog into orbit in 1957 we would've absolutely done the same.