Kosmos 110 was a Soviet spacecraft

Spacecraft

A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....

 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...

 aboard a Soyuz rocket. It incorporated a re-entry body (capsule) for landing scientific instruments and test objects. It was a biological satellite that made a sustained biomedical experiment with the dogs Veterok and Ugolyok, after 22 days in orbit around the Earth, they were safely landed.

NSSDC ID: 1966-015A http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1966-015A

Other Names

• 02070

Launch Date/Time: February 22, 1966 at 20:09:00 UTC

On-orbit Dry Mass: 5700 kg

See also

• Russian space dogs
  Russian space dogs
  During the 1950s and 1960s the USSR used a number of dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. In this period, the Soviet Union launched missions with passenger slots for at least 57 dogs. The actual number of dogs in space is smaller, as...
  
  
• Animals in space
  Animals in space
  Animals in space originally only served to test the survivability of spaceflight, before manned space missions were attempted. Later, animals were also flown to investigate various biological processes and the effects microgravity and space flight might have on them...