In 1960, two stray dogs were plucked from the streets of Moscow to be the guinea pigs of manned space flight. Dogs in Space tells the true story of these heroic strays - named Belka and Strelka. They are put through their paces before being launched into outer space as the first ever living creatures to successfully orbit the Earth.
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