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  Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle - Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=xSdHVIpsrKkC

  Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into…

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  Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle - Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=xSdHVIpsrKkC&dq=Animals+in+Space&source=gbs_navlinks_s

  Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into…

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