"... v germeticheskoi kabine korablya-sputnika raspolagalis' 3 kletki, v kotoryh nahodilis' 2 belye laboratornye krysy, 15 chernyh i 13 belyh laboratornyh myshei. V katapul'tiruemom konteinere nahodilis' 2 sobaki (Strelka i Belka), kletka s 6 chernymi i 6 belymi laboratornymi myshami, neskol'ko soten nasekomyh (plodovyh muh-drozofil), 2 sosuda s rasteniem tradeskanciei, semena razlichnyh sortov luka, goroha, pshenicy, kukuruzy i nigelly, special'nye sosudy s gribkami-aktinomicetami, odnokletochnaya vodorosl' hlorella v zhidkoi i na tverdoi pitatel'nyh sredah. V 50 patronah nahodilis' zapayannye ampuly s bakterial'noi kul'turoi kishechnoi palochki (tip KK-12, "V", "aerogenes"), palochki maslyanokislogo brozheniya so stafilokokkovoi kul'turoi, dvumya raznovidnostyami faga (T-2 i 13-21), rastvorom dezoksiribonukleinovoi kisloty (DNK), a takzhe kul'turoi epitelial'nyh opuholevyh kletok cheloveka (kletki Hela) i nebol'shimi konservirovannymi uchastkami kozhi cheloveka i krolika. Krome togo, v katapul'tiruemom konteinere nahodilis' 4 avtomaticheskih bioelementa s kul'turoi palochki maslyanokislogo brozheniya, 2 bioelementa — v special'nom termostate i 2 — v neuteplennom konteinere".