Animals in space rabbit to go into space. A 19 September 1959 launch, Jupiter AM-23, carried 2 frogs along with 12 mice but the rocket was destroyed during launch. On 19 August 1960 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 5 (also known as Korabl-Sputnik 2) which carried the dogs Belka and Strelka, along with a gray rabbit, 40 mice, 2 rats, and 15 flasks of fruit flies and plants. It was the first spacecraft to carry animals into orbit and return them alive. One of Strelka's pups, Pushinka, bred and born after her mission, was given as a present to Caroline Kennedy by Nikita
Safe at Home lost track "Knee Deep in the Blues" (originally a single by Marty Robbins in 1957) from the "Safe at Home" sessions was re-discovered and issued on that anthology, as well as on the 2004 compact disc re-release of "Safe at Home" (the original mid-1980s CD pressing having been on the tiny Shiloh Records). Reviews of "Safe at Home" have been mixed but generally positive. Upon its 1968 release, renowned music journalist Robert Christgau seemed pleasantly surprised by the notion of "four smiling longhairs" playing skillful country music, referring to the album as "a good record and a brilliant conception." Parsons'