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Strelka, one of the first two canines to come back from a space mission, had a pup named Pushinka that was given to JFK by Khrushchev. Pushinka then bred with one of the Kennedy s dogs, and the President humorously referred to their offspring as Pupniks.

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Strelka, one of the first two canines to come back from a space mission, had a pup named Pushinka that was given to JFK by Khrushchev. Pushinka then bred with one of the Kennedy’s dogs, and the President humorously referred to their offspring as Pupniks.

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