Which two animals were the first to survive a trip into space?

MaggieG 5

Belka and Strelka, two dogs. One of them later had puppies, one of which was given to Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the then president JFK. http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question49.html May 29 04, 5:20 PM

shady shaker

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_3725000/3725961.stm the answer was Able - a female rhesus monkey and Baker - a female spider monkey. They were shot 300 miles into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile AM-18, and landed 15 minutes later, and 1500 miles away in the Atlantic ocean off Puerto Rico. May 31 04, 6:54 AM

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