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Into the Cosmos Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies Jonathan Harris, Editor [18.232.62.134] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:19 GMT) Into the Cosmos Space Exploration and Soviet Culture Edited by James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi University of Pittsburgh Press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2011, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Into the cosmos : space exploration and Soviet culture / edited by James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8229-6161-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Astronautics—Soviet Union—History. 2. Astronautics and state—Soviet Union. 3. Astronautics—Social aspects—Soviet Union. 4. Popular culture—Soviet Union. I. Andrews, James T., 1961– II. Siddiqi, Asif A., 1966– TL789.8.S65I58 2011 629.40947—dc23 2011020849 The research and writing of chapter 6, Amy Nelson’s “Cold War Celebrity and the Courageous Canine Scout: The Life and Times of Soviet Space Dogs,” was supported by a Summer Humanities Stipend and a Jerome Niles Faculty Research Award from Virginia Tech and by the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe at the University of Illinois. Portions of this chapter appeared previously in “The Legacy of Laika: Celebrity , Sacrifice, and the Soviet Space Dogs,” in Beastly Natures: Human-Animal Relations at the Crossroads of Cultural and Environmental History, edited by Dorothee Brantz (University of Virginia Press, 2010), 204–24. [18.232.62.134] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:19 GMT) “Our space epic has convincingly revealed to the world the upbringing of a new person—spiritually beautiful, courageous, devoted to communist ideals, and having a high sense of internationalism.” —Pravda, November 4, 1968, describing the profession of the cosmonaut ...