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bobstafford Started conversation Jan 17, 2010
Who were Laska and Benjy and what are they famous for
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toybox Posted Jan 17, 2010
These names ring a bell. Were they dogs? The first dogs in space?
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toybox Posted Jan 17, 2010
Something in space? The first comical duo to perform a joke at zero gravity?
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
Something in space? +1
The first comical duo to perform a joke at zero gravity? No
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toybox Posted Jan 17, 2010
Laska and Benji are people?
Did they do* something daring for the first time? (like the first flight above 100 km or something)
* or were they made to do, if they're not people
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
Toybox
Did they made to do something daring for the first time? First of nation
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
Toybox
Did they were made to do something daring for the first time? First from a nation
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Todaymueller Posted Jan 17, 2010
Laska rings a bell for first dog [ russian ] in space . Benjy maybe first monkey [ USA ] in space ?
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
DGI (+1) there Todaymueller - Laska (leika was the name but that's close enough for me) rings a bell for first dog [ russian ] in space
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Jan 17, 2010
Are they the nicknames of the first American & Russian astronaut/cosmonauts to meet in space.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jan 17, 2010
"Laika" isn't really a name, more a description. It just means "Barker", and was a breed of dog. She was really named "Kudrjawka".
(This I know because of a very strange exhibition in the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where they have an entire gallery dedicated to oil paintings of dogs involved in the Soviet space programme 
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