Everyone remembers Laika, the dog the Soviets sent into orbit with no way of bringing her back. But Laika was preceded dozens of canine cosmonauts, nearly half of whom died, and followed into orbit by Belka and Strelka, who became pop stars in the USSR after their victorious landing.
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Dog in a spacesuit
The text (in French and Dutch) on the reverse of this 1964 Jacques chocolate card, “Assault on the Stars,” explains how dog astronauts helped man explore the physical effects of space flight. (© FUEL Publishing / Marianne Van den Lemmer)
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