Vlad and the Space Race

The Vlad flea picture books present historical events in lively stories with Vlad relating the ups and downs in his cheeky inimitable style. The information in the tales are accurate and backed with a fact file at the end of the book.

On 19^th August 1960 Strelka and Belka the dogs were launched into space as part of the Russian space programme. They had been taken from the streets of Moscow where they lived as strays, and found themselves in a training centre undergoing various tests to prep...