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Robert Pearlman
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posted December 21, 2005 01:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From REGNUM News Agency:
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A monument to a dog astronaut called Zvezdochka (Starlet) will be erected in Izhevsk (Udmurtia, Russia) in March, 2006, REGNUM was told in Udmurtia’s Culture Ministry.
Read the complete news brief here.

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Chris Dubbs
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posted December 21, 2005 09:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Dubbs   Click Here to Email Chris Dubbs     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is good news! Of course, Laika has a small place on the monument to fallen cosmonauts in Star City. And Belka and Strelka are stuffed in the Cosmonautics Museum.

What this article doesn't mention is why the monument is being erected at this location.

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spaceman
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posted December 25, 2005 05:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceman   Click Here to Email spaceman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi, some recent posts debated whether space tourists were astronauts/cosmonauts and yet we accept the term for a dog that flew in space?

Nick

P.S Muttonaut, Houndonaut or can someone think of something more appropriate? And then there's the monkey, frogs, spiders, etc.

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Chris Dubbs
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posted December 25, 2005 05:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Dubbs   Click Here to Email Chris Dubbs     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
President Kennedy was partial to the term Pupniks.

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FFrench
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posted December 25, 2005 04:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FFrench     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Muttnik...

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