A DOG'S LANDING Landing map for Pre-Vostok 1 flight Sputnik 9. Landing map of the man-rated Sputnik 9 capsule. As a preliminary to Gagarin's flight of Vostok 1, Sputnik 9 was launched on March 9, 1961 and carried the black dog Chernushka (Blackie) on a one orbit mission. The spacecraft also carried a dummy cosmonaut, mice and a guinea pig on board. 22.5x17 inches. 9 March, 1961
With the landing site marked in red and inscribed by Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin, head of the Russian cosmonaut team on the verso, "Place of landing/ 9-3-61/Kamanin"
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