FIFTH SPACE FLIGHT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 19

FIFTH SPACE FLIGHT

Russian Dog Survives (N.Z. Press Association—Copvrioht) MOSCOW, July A A Soviet dog. Courageous, has returned safely to earth after its fifth space flight A one-stage ballistic rocket carrying Courageous and another dog and a rabbit, was successfully launched last month and reached a height of about 130 miles. All the animals are in good condition, Tass reported. Courageous—which has been sent up to a height of 280 miles in past experiments—made two trips into space in July, 1959. The most famous space animal of them all, the space-dog Laika, died in an earth satellite while it was still circling the earth. But the Bussians have recovered several fired in rockets, as distinct from satellites. Moscow Radio said the latest rocket hauled a total weight in instruments, animals, and power sources of about 46201 b. It said “valuable, information" was obtained on conditions in the upper layers of the atmosphere and the condition of the animals after landing was “satisfactory.”

The broadcast also claimed that the flight bad provided new details about “the muscular tone of animals in conditions of weightlessness.”