Cosmonautics Day: Russia’s Space Exploration In Photos

Three years later, Belka and Strelka gained a place in history as the first animals to survive space orbit. Accompanied by a rabbit, 42 mice, two rats, flies and several plants, the duo and all their traveling companions made it safely back to earth.

Sergei Preobrazhensky, Nikolai Sitnikov / TASS


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