Talk:Soviet space dogs

message: Please give credit where credit is due.  While the LANGUAGE of certain items may be RUSSIAN, the proper designation for the technology and achievements in general is SOVIET, not RUSSIAN.  The country was the SOVIET UNION, and failing to acknowledge this unduly praises Russian contributions while ignoring the contributions of the thousands of non-Russians who were part of this.  To do otherwise would be as patently wrong as saying "the English army won the Battle of Britain" or "The Californian hockey team won the 1980 Olympic ice hockey."    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.7.28 (talk) 07:16, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian vs Soviet 

message: Laika was the "first living Earth-born creature in orbit...." I'm glad the author cleared up that Laika wasn't from Mercury or Uranus.
The "earth born" has its place here because you can't space out(haha for the pun) the possibility that other living creatures were in space before Laika.  --DocBrown 23:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Earth-born

message: With all due respect, this is the most unverified article I've seen in wikipedia.The "space race" of the time was the biggest propaganda item in world politics.The Russians launched Sputnik, and the signal was picked up by nations around the world.Has any independant authority witnessed the launch & landing of these animals? Unlikely.Why is it unchallenged?The successful launch & return of living creatures from Earth is historic.To accept the Russian version is naive at best.Ern Malleyscrub (talk) 15:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: With all due respect, if you're unable to properly identify the country involved as 'the Soviet Union' and not 'Russia', then I'm not sure that your objection is worthy of further discussion. 82.26.7.28 (talk) 07:17, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

text: There is ample evidence that the R-1, R-2 and R-5 rockets were used on geophysical missions -- eyewitness accounts in biographies, photographs, the equipment in museums, journal papers, even declassifed CIA reports.  Mr. Mallyscrub may be confused into thinking these early 1950s flights were orbital.  They were not putting dogs into orbit, they were just geophysical sounding rockets fired straight up and falling back to Earth.  It is a simple matter to reprogram ballistic missiles to do that. 24.16.88.14 (talk) 08:11, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Confirmation from independant sources?

message: Would the anonymous users who have kindly provided translations for the dog names be willing to do a full Russian translation for the Russian Wikipedia? :-) Zerbey 04:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Translations

message: 84.10.168.106 (talk • contribs • 84.10.168.106 count) has been making questionable edits to this article, regarding the translation of the dogs' names. For instance, Pchelka = "Little Flea" as opposed to "Little Bee." I frankly have no knowledge of Russian and do not know whether his translations are accurate; however, I assume someone here must. As (s)he's editing from an IP account and leaving no edit summaries, I felt it best to inform the regular editors of this article that such changes have been made, so that they can review them and revert them if necessary. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Pchelka" is "Little Bee". --ajvol 10:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think you should merge it 107.140.30.83 (talk) 20:56, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No keep it the way it is keep belka and strelka on the same page Tanktanooki (talk) 21:50, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: On a Similar Topic of Translations

message: Should the Ren & Stimpy episode with the obvious allusion be mentioned in the article? I think it is a humorous allusion to this subject. Rintrah 09:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ren & Stimpy

message: This article is about Belka and Strelka, not about the history of Dogs in Space (pun). I feel that it should be broken into a new article: History of Russian Canine Spaceflights (or something else...), but I don't know the appropriate template. Geo 03:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is a joke, I don't understand. Mukadderat 02:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops! Sorry, I misread. I was ill then, after all... Geo 22:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Break Up

message: Does any one want to write an article about this? Mukadderat 02:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Despite what the text of the article may claim, the apparatus in the accompanying photos make it clear this flight was not a spaceflight. (sdsds - talk) 22:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian pig in space

message: Is this an insult for Russian people? It was a Soviet space program. The name should be Soviet space dogs.  --Tigga en 08:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You do have a point, if enough people post requesting the change the article can be moved.  However, there are many other pages that link to this one. Zerbey 13:08, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Moved. BTW both phrases collect rather insignificant google hits. But "Soviet" is indeed a more correct one. `'Míkka 17:28, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Just as the Scots are British but are not keen to be called English, the Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Georgians, Azeris, Armenians, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Ukrainians, etc might object to having things they did or projects they contributed to referred to as solely "Russian".  The Baltic States were independent countries at the time of the creation of the Soviet Union and at the time of Lenin's death.Bdell555 (talk) 20:47, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian dogs?

message: It appears that more than two thirds of the dogs were female. Is there any information on that possibly female dogs could take space voyage better than male ones? Or it is a casual coincidence? Garret Beaumain (talk) 18:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article addresses this in the section on Training. (sdsds - talk) 22:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender of the dogs

message: the first "earth-born" creatures in space were actually small flies (don't know it's name in english) sent to space in a rocket V2 in 1946. that's one thing, the other: "belka" actually doesn't mean "squirrel", the correct translation should be "the white one". 
Funkygata  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.8.6.22 (talk) 10:59, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NOT THE FIRST ONES 

message: This article says "Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight on July 22, 1951", yet Animals in space says "On January 29, 1951, the Soviet Union launched the R-1 IIIA-1 flight, carrying the dogs Tsygan (Russian: Цыган, "Gypsy") and Dezik (Russian: Дезик) into space". Which is it? AMCKen (talk) 02:24, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted; the Siddiqi reference says July 22, 1951, so that's what we should go with. Mlm42 (talk) 19:17, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: On the flight carrying the two dogs, Belka and Strelka, the translation of 3 Russian-language webpages on the flight say that they sent live bone marrow cultures or cells of a rabbit (rather then a live rabbit)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ann Vole (talk • contribs) 17:05, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Belka and Strelka and the rabbit

message: An anon IP is busy restoring the debunked claim that Laika had TV coverage, using a tiny NASA source. As usual, this is probably derived from the 2/5 numbering confusion. Can someone who is better equipped for sourcing of this please assist? I'm already engaged elsewhere with this same 4RR-persistent editor. Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laika TV 

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message: It seems to me that Belka and Strelka doesn't have enough substantial information on its own to justify supporting a separate article. The article is a near-total repeat of the information already covered here, including details about their puppies. Much is also already present on Korabl-Sputnik 2. Its contents should be merged into this article. Marisauna (talk) 02:43, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belka and Strelka merge proposal