As animals for the first time flied to space: 8 stories

Photo: Wikimedia Commons in the USSR is started on August 19, 1960 the Satellite-5 spaceship Vaktsina "Gam-Kovid-Vak" with live freight onboard – dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats. After that dogs Belka and Strelka became one of the first animals, made space flight and come back to Earth safe. The dog Husky to the Very first animals who have got into an orbit of Earth, was the Soviet dog Husky. Though other "competitors" applied for this flight – vagrant dogs Mucha and Albina who already made couple of suborbital flights earlier also. But at the time of Albyn's tests was...