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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Here is my poem for next week. I will also attach it in a word document.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Laika<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=noteintro1><span style='font-size:14.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=noteintro1><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>©Mary-Jo Lord<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=noteintro1><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=noteintro1><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>on November 3, 1957,<br></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Laika, a Good natured, eleven pound stray</span><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>of mixed breed, was harnessed into a capsule,<br>provided food and water, and</span><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>launched into space<b> aboard Sputnik 2</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Could a living animal be<br>launched into orbit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Laika and <b>Sputnik 2 would<br></b>reveal the answer and<br>expose endless possibilities for<br>space travel in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Reports were conflicting as to<br>how long she survived, what she experienced.<br>Her six hour survival in space,<br>the overheated cabin, her elevated vital signs<br>were finally revealed in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Armed with the knowledge that her capsule would<br>not return to Earth in one piece,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>a scientist took her home to play with his children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>On that cold, November afternoon,<br>Laika, perky eared, with tail wagging<br>willingly followed the scientists to her capsule.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Trusting, eager to please.<br>Laika was unknowingly launched<br>into the unknown.<br>Where no man had gone or at that time, would<br>be willing to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>