Korabl-Sputnik 4

Template:Short description Template:Infobox spaceflight Korabl-Sputnik 4<ref name="LL">Template:Cite web</ref> (Template:Langx meaning Ship-Satellite 4) or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West,<ref name="EA">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched on 9 March 1961. Carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and the first guinea pig in space, it was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Chernushka the dog at Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga

Korabl-Sputnik 4 was launched at 06:29:00 UTC on 9 March 1961, atop a Vostok-K carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<ref name="LL"/> It was successfully placed into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft was only intended to complete a single orbit, so it was deorbited shortly after launch, and reentered on its first pass over the Soviet Union. It landed at 08:09:54 UTC, and was successfully recovered. During the descent, the mannequin was ejected from the spacecraft in a test of its ejection seat, and descended separately under its own parachute.<ref name="EA-R7">Template:Cite web</ref>