Korabl-Sputnik 5
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Korabl-Sputnik 5 or Vostok-3KA No.2, also known as Sputnik 10 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961, as part of the Vostok programme. It was the last test flight of the Vosto
The Soviet Union 1961 CPA 2588 stamp
Hatch of the spacecraft in the Chaykovsky museum
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Soviet space dogs
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet space program used dogs for suborbital and orbital space flights as proof-of-concept to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. The Soviet space program ty
Korabl-Sputnik 5
…was the last test flight of the Vostok spacecraft design prior the first crewed flight, Vostok 1. It carried the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Zvezdochka ("Starlet", or "Little star"), frogs, monkeys, mice, rats, plants, television cameras and scientific apparatus. A spacecraft of the design Vostok 3KA…
Original Soviet space dog environmentally controlled safety module used on sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights
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