Soviet space dogs of descendants of some of the Space Dogs is on display at the Zvezda Museum in Tomilino outside Moscow. A Russian animated feature film called "Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs" (English title: "Space Dogs") was released in 2010. Pchyolka (Пчёлка, "Little Bee") and Mushka (Мушка, "Little Fly") spent a day in orbit on 1 December 1960 on board Korabl-Sputnik-3 (Sputnik 6) with "other animals", plants and insects. Due to a reentry error when the retrorockets failed to shut off when planned, their spacecraft was intentionally destroyed by remote self-destruct to prevent foreign powers from inspecting the capsule on 2 December
Safe Humane Chicago neglect. Through the contributions made by Safe Humane Chicago the dogs were rehabilitated and adopted through their program. As of November 2015, the program has rescued a total of 760 dogs. In the summer of 2013 eight dogs were rescued and brought to Safe humane Chicago’s court case program after a fire was spotted in a burning home, containing a total of 22 dogs. The dogs were made ready for adoption including one of the dogs, Clause, who was adopted by pianist, Ira Goodkin. Goodkin became inspired by the story which led him to partner with Safe Humane Chicago and