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This mission was called Korabl-Sputnik 4, and it was a complete success. [5] Prior to Korabl-Sputnik 4, the two previous missions in the Vostok programme were both launched in December 1960, and both ended in failure. [6] Only days before the launch of Korabl-Sputnik 5, the cosmonaut team, which consisted of 20 men, experienced its first fatality.
Belka and Strelka on a 2010 stamp of Russia, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their spaceflight. Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel", or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka (Стрелка, "arrow") were dogs that spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth.
2 December 1960 — Partial failure: Unnamed: 1K-4: 22 December 1960 — — Failure: Korabl-Sputnik 4: 3KA-1: 9 March 1961: 9 March 1961 — Success: Korabl-Sputnik 5: 3KA-2: 25 March 1961: 25 March 1961 — Success: Vostok 1: 3KA-3: 12 April 1961: 12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin: Success: First man in space. Vostok 2: 3KA-4: 6 August 1961: 7 ...
Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel", or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka (Стрелка, "little arrow") spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth. [11] They are the first higher living organisms to survive orbit in outer space.
1960 August 18 USA First spy photography from space First aerial recovery of an object (the film) returning from Earth orbit Discoverer 14: 1960 August 19 USSR First animals and plants returned alive from space (the dogs Belka and Strelka) First capsule recovered from orbit Korabl-Sputnik 2 (aka Sputnik 5) 1961 January 31 USA
You probably know these atomic-style, space-inspired Sputnik chandeliers just by sight. They were designed by Hans Harald Rath, a fourth-generation member of the family-owned Lobmeyr Glass Company ...
The success of Korabl-Sputnik 2 gave the designers confidence to put forward a plan leading to a human spaceflight. A document regarding a plan for the Vostok programme, dated September 10, 1960, and declassified in 1991, was sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and approved by Premier Nikita Khrushchev. [19]
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