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 on September 28, 1996, at the Berlin Schaubühne, and was followed by 20 performances in October. It was performed in German, translated by German playwright Botho Strauß. 'The Man from the USSR' was first produced in Berlin in 1926, and the first act was published in "Rul"' on January 1 the following year. 'The Event' was written in Paris in 1938, and was published in "Russkie kapiskie" ("Russian Annuls"). The plot follows a painter in tsarist Russia and his wife as they await a convict who has threatened them with violence. 'The Granddad' is a one-act verse play, which was