
The dogs spent over 25 hours in space while the spaceship made 17 complete revolutions around the Earth.
The spacecraft with animals on board made a successful landing in the designated area on August 20, 1960. The experiment provided groundbreaking data about the effects of spaceflight on living beings’ physiological, genetic and cytological systems.
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For our readers who wants to know more about Belka and Strelka’s flight Kyle wrote a great article and added another very interesting documentary there:
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