Corona (satellite) retrieved two days later by a C-119 Flying Boxcar transport plane. This was the first successful return of photographic film from orbit. In comparison, Sputnik 5 was launched into orbit on August 19, 1960, one day after the launch of Discoverer 14. Sputnik 5 was a biosatellite that took into orbit the two Soviet space dogs, Belka and Strelka, and then safely returned them to the Earth . At least two launches of "Discoverers" were used to test satellites for the Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS), an early missile-launch-detection program that used infrared cameras to detect the heat signature of
The Man from the USSR and Other Plays first published in "Rul"' in October 1924. According to Kanfer's review in Time magazine, 'Because of the melodramatic structure and blank-verse dialogue, the play is the least successful.' The response to this collection has been small compared to the general response to Nabokov's work, due in part to the small proportion of his canon that drama represents. The Man from the USSR and Other Plays The Man from the USSR and Other Plays is a collection of four dramas by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1984. The plays were collected and translated from the original Russian by