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Happy 50th Birthday To Sputnik 5

Sam Biddle August 20, 2010 12:00 AM

Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft – known as Sputnik 5 in the west – carrying two dogs named Belka and Strelka, along with mice, rats and flies into space. More surprising? Everyone came back alive.

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