As many of you know I have a particular interest in the early non-human space travelers, and collector's weekly has a great article up about the Soviet space dogs: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/article ... r-mankind/
Through this article I learned of the "Monument to the Conquerors of Space", of which I was previously unfamiliar. It's a very beautiful monument (shared under CC license, click photo to go to Flickr page):
