#OTD 🇷🇺🇷🇺Belka and Strelka are dogs that spent a day in space aboard 🇷🇺Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth.

🟣They were the first higher living organisms to survive an orbital trip in outer space

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