How to use in-sentence of “sputnik”:
+ It began with the USSR putting the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit around the Earth, making the Soviet Union the first country in space.
+ It caused a crisis known as the Sputnik Crisis as the Americans feared the Russians might start building weapons in space.
+ She was then chosen as the dog to go up in the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
+ The United States was very surprised when the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into space.
+ Footage of Sputnik 2 is intermittently seen in the movie.
+ On October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1, which was the first artificial satellite.
+ Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 burned up—along with Laika’s remains—during re-entry on April 14, 1958.
+ The USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957; a living dog named Laika in 1957; the first human being, Yuri Gagarin in 1961; the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963; Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space in 1965; the first soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft Luna 9 in 1966; and the first Moon rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2.
