Albert II, the rhesus monkey died.

Three mice died. Fourteen mice aboard the rocket Jupiter 

also died. Fruit flies survived.

The monkey Gordo died.

The monkey Yorick came back.

The monkeys Able and Baker returned,

but died under surgery.

Two dogs and the rabbit Marfusa returned.

The dogs Tsygan and Dezik survived, but died on a 

subsequent flight. Two frogs and twelve mice died: the 

rocket was destroyed during the launch.

Laika died during the flight, as was intended:

her return was not possible.

After ten days Laika would have been poisoned with 

food so as not to burn alive on returning into the Earth’s 

atmosphere.

Chayka and Lisichka died.

Belka and Strelka returned, and were stuffed.

Pchyolka and Mushka burned to death.

Chernushka returned after spending a day with mice, a 

guinea pig and

the wooden dummy astronaut Ivan Ivanovich.

The mice Sally, Amy and Moe returned.

The dog Zvyozdochka returned.

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Ham the Chimp returned.

Enos the Chimp returned.

Soviet mice, guinea pigs and frogs returned.

The French rat Hector returned.

The monkeys Lapik and Multik returned.

After returning from space, Dryoma the monkey

was presented to Fidel Castro.

The Chinese dogs Xiaobao and Shanshan survived.

The French cat Felix escaped.

His replacement Félicette returned.

The dogs Veterok and Ugolyok returned.

Two French monkeys returned.

Nematodes were found still alive in the debris

after the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster.

American fruit flies, parasitic wasps,

flour beetles and frogspawn, along with

bacteria, amoebae, plants and fungi came back.

The Argentinian rat Belisario returned.

The Argentinian monkey Juan returned.

The American monkey Bonny died within a day of landing. 

The spiders Arabella and Aranita died from dehydration.

The first fish in space survived.

Worms returned frozen.

Newt and chicken eggs, brackish shrimp, Chinese sea pig,

And Japanese quail eggs returned.

The first Iranian animal launched into space returned.

A Russian turtle returned, having lost weight. 

A female cockroach came back pregnant.