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    Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel", or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka (Стрелка, "little arrow") are dogs that spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik...
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  • Space Dogs (a.k.a. Belka & Strelka — Star Dogs, original: Белка и Стрелка. Звёздные собаки, Belka i Strelka. Zvyozdnye sobaki) is a 2010 Russian animated...
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    to justify the death of the dog...". Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel", or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka (Стрелка, "little arrow") spent a day...
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  • Space Dogs: Return to Earth (category Russian and Soviet animated science fiction films)
    Белка и Стрелка: Карибская тайна, romanized: Belka i Strelka: Karibskaya Tayna, lit. 'Belka and Strelka: Caribbean Mystery') also known as Space Dogs:...
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    return them safely back to Earth, including two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka. Launched on 19 August 1960, it paved the way for the first human...
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  • Laika (category Dog training and behavior)
    Animals in space Albert II, first primate and first mammal in space Félicette, first cat in space Belka and Strelka Soviet space dogs List of individual dogs...
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  • failure and crashed, destroying the satellites. The name BelKA is thought to be an allusion to the Soviet space dog, Belka, who, together with Strelka orbited...
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    Sergei Korolev (category Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)
    and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the...
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  • Yazdovsky prepared the dogs Belka and Strelka for Korabl-Sputnik 2, the first spaceflight to launch animals into orbit and return them alive to Earth....
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    some concern for Belka and Strelka's health, after images of Belka vomiting had been obtained from the onboard cameras. The spacecraft and dogs were recovered...
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    him stuffed and placed on display at the Smithsonian Institution, following Soviet precedent with pioneering space dogs Belka and Strelka. However, this...
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  • Vinnician Festival, 2008, for the animated movie The Real Adventures of Belka and Strelka Russian Flash Awards', 2009, for the animated movie Three Acrobat...
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  • computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka The Special Relationship (2010) – American/British political film...
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  • This is a list of fictional dogs in animated film and is a subsidiary to the list of fictional dogs. It is a collection of various animated dogs in film...
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    Korabl-Sputnik 2) which carried the dogs Belka and Strelka, along with a gray rabbit, 40 mice, 2 rats, and 15 flasks of fruit flies and plants. It was the first spacecraft...
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    Sputnik 5, containing the space dogs Belka and Strelka, whose images are often mistaken for the dog Laika, and the 1961 flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first...
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    no expectation for survival. She died several hours into flight. Belka and Strelka became the first canines to safely return to Earth from orbit on 19...
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  • Timeline of the Space Race (category History of science and technology in the United States)
    This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space...
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    Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born...
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  • The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary...
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    Space Race (category History of science and technology in the United States)
    of the dog...". On August 19, 1960, the dogs Belka and Strelka were sent into orbit aboard Sputnik 5 and safely returned. The Americans sent the chimpanzee...
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    In 1960 Belka and Strelka, two Russian mixed breeds, went into space aboard Sputnik 5 and returned. They were, along with their mice, rats, and rabbit...
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  • satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka (the Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. This satellite...
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    a biosatellite that took into orbit the two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka, and safely returned them to Earth. The impact of CORONA on American...
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    Monument to the Conquerors of Space (category Buildings and structures completed in 1964)
    general has had a high concentration of space-themed sights and names: besides the monument and the museum under it, the grand "Cosmos" pavilion in the Exhibition...
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  • Soviet space program (category Science and technology in the Soviet Union)
    dogs Belka and Strelka on Sputnik 5. 1961: First probe launched to Venus, Venera 1. 1961: First person in space (International definition) and in Earth...
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    Гриша́ева; born 21 July 1971) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater, film and television, master parody, TV presenter and singer. She's associated with Honored...
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  • eating, exercising and conducting experiments in weightlessness. Krikalev was a bystander to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and the collapse of the...
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    creation of the Vostok programme in 1960 and the first living creatures to survive the trip to space, Belka and Strelka the Soviet space dogs. The Vostok Program...
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    dogs by the Soviets and chimps by the US (dogs Laika in November 1957 and then Belka and Strelka on Russian Sputnik 5 in August 1960 and the chimpanzees Ham...
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