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Actually the spacecraft's name "BelKA" has AFAIK nothing to do with the russian space dog "Belka". It is only, as the article says, an acronym from Belarusian: Беларускі Касьмічны Апарат, Belarusian Cosmic Apparatus and it means squirrel in russian. I would remove the space dog info from the article, unless someone can provide a source to prove it right. --Bricktop 07:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why do you want to remove this mention. Of course you won't find any official source saying that apparatus was named after dog - just because officially it is acronym. But everyone in Belarus understands that the name was deliberately chosen to resemble dog's name, and "squirrel" is unofficial nickname of it. That's why I'll reinstate the info. --Monk 12:00, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I edited the info a little to show that this is an unofficial informaton without any source. --Bricktop 16:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]