Animal astronauts

USSR. Moscow Region. September 1959. Dog Otvazhnaya and rabbit Marfusha (Seryi), who took part in the flight on a single-stage geophysical medium-range ballistic missile launched into the upper atmosphere on July 2, 1959, during a walk in the garden of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Nikolai Rakhmanov/TASS