On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9.
This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, dozens of mice, some reptiles, and the first-ever guinea pig to fly to space. The dummy and his gang of animals launched on a Vostok-K carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. All the animals made it back to Earth unharmed after completing one orbit around the Earth. Ivan Ivanovich was ejected from the capsule during reentry and landed with his own parachute.
This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, dozens of mice, some reptiles, and the first-ever guinea pig to fly to space. The dummy and his gang of animals launched on a Vostok-K carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. All the animals made it back to Earth unharmed after completing one orbit around the Earth. Ivan Ivanovich was ejected from the capsule during reentry and landed with his own parachute.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9.
00:08This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft,
00:11which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space.
00:14Inside the spacecraft was a mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich,
00:17a dog named Shurnushka, dozens of mice, some reptiles,
00:20and the first ever guinea pig to fly to space.
00:23The dummy and his gang of animals launched on a Vostok K carrier rocket
00:26from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
00:29All the animals made it back to Earth unharmed after completing one orbit around the Earth.
00:33Ivan Ivanovich was ejected from the capsule during re-entry
00:36and landed with his own parachute.
00:38And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:41NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology